Investigation of the Effects of 8 Week Core Training Applied to University Students on Dynamic Balance

Abstract

Introduction and purpose:The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of eight-week practice training on the dynamic balance performance of students taking the courses of Physical Education and Sport College. The sample of the study consisted of the core training experimental group (n = 14) who took the elective tennis lesson in the Department of Physical Education Teaching at the Karamanoglu Mehmetbey University School of Physical Education and Sports and the control group from the Sports Management department (n = 12) taking the elective tennis course.The changes in the dynamic balance performance of the participants after eight week core training applications were examined. Method: In addition to tennis lessons, core training was applied to experimental group 3 days a week for 8 weeks, the control group only participated in tennis lessons. Dynamic balance test measurements of the experimental and control groups were taken before and after the 8-week training program. Pre-test and post-test experimental method was used in the study. Findings:The normal distribution assumption of the data was checked using skewness-kurtosis and histogram. ANOVA test was applied for the mixed measurements of 2 (group) x 8 (direction). The error level (a) was accepted as 0.05 for all statistical methods. A significant difference was found between the pre-test and post-test values of both groups (F(4.37, 104.90)= 63.75, p<.05). The final test values of the groups in 8 directions increased significantly. In order to check whether there is a significant difference between the groups, in the analysis results no significant difference was found between the experimental and control groups (F (1, 24) =.20, p>.05). Result:As a result, a significant difference was observed in the pre and post test values of the experimental and control groups of 8 week core training applications. However, a positive effect on balance performance of participants taking tennis lessons was observed, too.