Effects of static and dynamic stretching during Warm-up on vertical jump in Soccer players

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of different stretching methods during warm-up on the power insoccer players.Therefore, nineteen professional soccer players (height: 173.37 ± 7.64 cm; mass: 68.12 ± 8.69 kg; age: 25.00 ± 4.56 years)were tested for power using vertical jump test after different warm-ups protocols consisting of static stretching, dynamic stretching, dynamic exercise, and no stretching. All data variables from the dynamic stretching, static stretching and static stretching trials were normalized to no stretching data and then analyzed at significance level of p ? 0.05. There was significant increase in power after dynamic stretching (1.62 ± 5.36 m) vs. static stretching (-1.43 ± 5.58 m) at p < 0.002, but there were no significant differences between dynamic stretching vs. dynamic exercise (0.12 ± 4.45 m) and dynamic exercise vs. static stretching. We concluded that soccer players probably perform better power after dynamic stretching and could be with more training on dynamic exercise; they can adapt their body with this stretching condition to perform better performances.