Background and aims:
Taekwondo is an Olympic combat sport that, due to the skills required in this sport, jumping and veer are important, and training programs help taekwondo players to improve their balance ability and performance in competition. Core stability exercises can be a good strategy to improve the performance of taekwondo players in competition. Therefore, the purpose of this research is the effects of six weeks of core stability exercises on improving the balance and performance of taekwondo boys.
Material and methods:
The current research is quasi-experimental and has been conducted as a field research. The statistical population consisted of 30 male taekwondo practitioners aged 10-15 from Mashhad city, who were selected judgmental and randomly divided into two groups of 15 people. At first, all the subjects signed a written consent form to conduct this research, and the single-hop test and triple-hop test were used for performance and the Y balance test was used to evaluate the balance of the subjects. After grouping, the pre-test was conducted to measure the research variables. Then, the program of core stability exercises was applied to the subjects of the experimental group for six weeks, and then the post-test was carried out with the same procedure as the pre-test.
Findings:
The findings showed that completing six weeks of the presented training program probably improved the dynamic balance in the medial posterior side(P=0.029) and the performance of the people (P=0.002) participating in this research in the core stability training group to the control group.
Conclusion:
The results of the current research show that core stability exercises have improved the balance and performance of taekwondo boys and have increased the performance of individuals in the competition. Based on this, these exercises can be considered as a safe and effective training method in improving these factors in taekwondo athletes. Also, these exercises can probably improve other factors with their positive effects on the above factors.