Investigation of Acute Effects of Different Warm-Up Protocols on Athletic Performance in Football

In football, warm-up is important for physical preparation, injury prevention, and performance enhancement. This study aimed to determine the acute effects of four different warm-up techniques, static, dynamic, self-myofascial stretching (SMR), and massage with Graston mobilization technique (GMTM), on sports performance in football. A total of 20 football players, 13 males and 7 females, who were actively studying at Yalova University Faculty of Sports Sciences and who had a football license for at least one year, were included in the study. In the study, 4 different warm-up programs were applied to each participant in random order on separate weeks, at the same time of the day and at the same day of the week. Passing, dribbling, agility, and vertical jump tests were performed before and after each warm-up program. Skewness, kurtosis values, descriptive statistics, Paired Samples T-test, and Two-Way Repeated Measures ANOVA test were used to analyze the data. As a result of the study, it was found that static warm-up, dynamic warm-up, warm-up with SMR, and warm-up with GMTM significantly increased dribbling, agility, and vertical jump performance (p0.05). No significant difference was found between the changes these warm-up types created in the total number of passes, dribbling and vertical jump performance within the scope of the warm-up type x time interaction (p>0.05), but it was determined that they created different effects on agility (p