Moran, Jason and Allen, Matt and Butson, Joshua and Granacher, Urs and Hammami, Raouf and Clemente, Filipe Manuel and Klabunde, Megan and Sandercock, Gavin (2024) How effective are external cues and analogies in enhancing sprint and jump performance in academy soccer players? Journal of Sports Sciences, 41 (22). pp. 2054-2061. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/02640414.2024.2309814
Moran, Jason and Allen, Matt and Butson, Joshua and Granacher, Urs and Hammami, Raouf and Clemente, Filipe Manuel and Klabunde, Megan and Sandercock, Gavin (2024) How effective are external cues and analogies in enhancing sprint and jump performance in academy soccer players? Journal of Sports Sciences, 41 (22). pp. 2054-2061. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/02640414.2024.2309814
Moran, Jason and Allen, Matt and Butson, Joshua and Granacher, Urs and Hammami, Raouf and Clemente, Filipe Manuel and Klabunde, Megan and Sandercock, Gavin (2024) How effective are external cues and analogies in enhancing sprint and jump performance in academy soccer players? Journal of Sports Sciences, 41 (22). pp. 2054-2061. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/02640414.2024.2309814
Abstract
This study investigated the effect of external (EC) and internal coaching cues (IC), analogies with a directional component (ADC) on sprint (20 m) and vertical jump performance in academy soccer players (<i>n</i> = 20). A repeated-measures analysis, with post-hoc comparisons, was used to identify any differences between these cues and a neutral (control) cue. Significant differences were found for both sprint (<i>p</i> < 0.001) and jump (<i>p</i> = 0.022) comparisons among cue types. In post-hoc analyses for the 20 m sprint, significant differences were observed between the EC and the IC, favouring the EC (<i>p</i> < 0.01, ES = 1.27 [CI: 0.24, 2.30]), and "away" ADC and the IC, favouring the "away" ADC (<i>p</i> < 0.01, ES = 1.21 [CI: 0.19, 2.22]). No other cues showed significant differences. For vertical jump, there was just one significant difference between comparisons, that being for the "away" ADC vs. the neutral cue, favouring the latter (<i>p</i> = 0.023, ES = 0.4 [CI: -0.04 to 0.84]). It appears that ECs and ADCs are most effective when coaching sprinting performance in academy soccer players. However, simply encouraging maximal effort from a youth athlete also appears to be a reasonable cueing strategy to drive performance in youth athletes.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Fundamental movement skills; instructions; run; jump; youth; speed |
Divisions: | Faculty of Science and Health Faculty of Science and Health > Psychology, Department of Faculty of Science and Health > Sport, Rehabilitation and Exercise Sciences, School of |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 14 Mar 2024 11:17 |
Last Modified: | 07 Aug 2024 16:19 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/37973 |
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