Accentuated Eccentric Loading training

Flywheel exercises

18 particpants will train in AEL group for three days a week for eight weeks and each session will take about 60-75 minutes, focusing on eccentric exercises like back squats, leg press, and hip thrusts at 90% 1RM intensity. Sessions, supervised by coaches, include free weight and weight machine exercises. Performance tests (20m sprint, T-agility, broad jump, 1RM assessments) will evaluate progress at the study's start and end.

Back squats compose muscular strength of lower limbs and hence, they were performed at a load of 90% of 1 RM. They recruit the quadriceps, hamstrings, gluteal muscles and the lower back skeletal muscles. It can be concluded that back squat as a measure of maximal strength is reliable and valid especially in athletic subjects such as football players. Cronbach alpha is significant in strength assessment in sports using back squats; test-retest reliability ICC equals 0. 97 and construct validity has been discovered in existing works.

At 90% 1RM hip thrust with the barbell aims at the gluteal muscles and plays an essential role in the improvement of hip extension power needed profoundly in sprinting and jumping in football. This exercise has been proven to help in enhancing hip strength as well as sprint performance; meanwhile, the reliability coefficient of the test in measuring maximal strength in athletes was very high (ICC = 0. 94). The hip thrust's focus on the posterior chain renders it a measure of lower limb strength that is directly applicable to football performance.

The broad jump is a test that is frequently used in lower body power, which tracks the force thatan individual athlete is able to produce quickly. This exercise is quite pertinent for football players since it replicates the kind of movements involved in football. The broad jump has shown test-retest reliability of Internal Consistency Coefficient, ICC= 0. 95 and construct validity in determining lower body power of athletes. It is easy to administer, sensitive and reliable and thus widely accepted as a standard measure in athletic ability assessment.

The leg-press equipment is used perform unilateral leg-press exercise to determine 1-RM strength and the maximal voluntary isometric contraction (MVIC). This exercise focuses on the quadriceps, hamstrings, and glutes by comparatively giving a controlled situation to determine lower limb force. In correlating maximal strength in the context of the leg press, previous studies have found very high to almost perfect reliability (ICC = 0. 96) as well as validity in populations that demand accurate determination of unilateral leg strength.