Assessing the effects of 10 weeks of fitlight-based plyogility training on basketball players’ attention, agility, dribbling, and shooting skills
Introduction: Plyometric and agility (plyogility) training; particularly with cognitive components including light, as in FITLIGHT systems offer immense advantages to enhancing physical performance and cognitive functning. Objective: The purpose of the study is to assess the impact of a plyogilit...
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| Language: | English |
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2025-07-01
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| Series: | Retos: Nuevas Tendencias en Educación Física, Deportes y Recreación |
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| Online Access: | https://revistaretos.org/index.php/retos/article/view/116478 |
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| Summary: | Introduction: Plyometric and agility (plyogility) training; particularly with cognitive components including light, as in FITLIGHT systems offer immense advantages to enhancing physical performance and cognitive functning.
Objective: The purpose of the study is to assess the impact of a plyogility program utilizing the FITLIGHT technique on basketball players’ auditory and visual attention, reactive agility, dribbling, and shooting skills.
Methodology: A population of 40 participants aged 18 20 in Al-Ahsa of Saudi Arabia were randomly selected and assigned to two groups: experimental (EG) and control (CG), totalling 20 participants in each group. The two groups were involved in a ten-week program that entailed four weekly training sessions. The FITLIGHT-assisted plyoagility training treatment was administered to the experimental group.
Results: The experimental group improved much on all the measured variables compared with the control group. The effect sizes ranged between 0.97 and 0.98, and the percentages of improvement rates in the experimental group covered a scale between 12.13% to 74.40%. The control group, by contrast, had even lower improvement rates (3.80% to 39.02%) and medium and large effects (0.77 to 0.94).
Discussion: The data obtained reveals indicated significant improvements in all measured skills for the experimental group (EG), including auditory/visual attention (RRH, RLH), reactive agility (Illinois Test), dribbling (T-Test D), and shooting (T-Test S), with greater gains compared to the control group (CG).
Conclusion: This study underscores the effectiveness of training programs that incorporate FITLIGHT technology in enhancing basketball players’ auditory and visual attention, reactive agility, dribbling, and shooting skills.
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| ISSN: | 1579-1726 1988-2041 |