DOES RESISTANCE TRAINING INCREASE THE HEIGHT OF THE “OLLIE AIR” MANEUVER IN SKATEBOARDERS? A PILOT STUDY.

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Resistance training (RT) is an important strategy to enhance muscle strength, leading to positive adaptations related to health, fitness and sport performance outcomes. Skateboard is an extreme sport, which proficiency is classified according to the extent of the difficulty of movements and maneuvers performed. The purpose of this study was to assess the effects of RT on lower limbs maximal strength and the height of the Ollie Air maneuver (OA). Twelve recreational skateboarders (age: 23.6±2.8 years; height: 1.77±0.1 meters; body mass: 66.2±4.0 kilograms; experience with skateboard: 8.9±3.1 years; relative strength in parallel back squat exercise: 1.0±0.2) with no previous experience in RT were randomly assigned to one of the following groups: RTG (resistance training group) and CG (control group). During 4 consecutive weeks, participants of RTG were submitted to 2 weekly RT sessions. Lower limbs maximal dynamic strength and the height of OA were assessed through one repetition-maximal (1RM) test and My Jump® app, respectively. For OA height, no significant difference was observed for relative pre to-post intervention changes between groups (p=0.523). A significant difference was observed for relative change in pre to post-intervention 1RM, with RTG presenting higher increase compared to the CG (p<0.001; ?%= 28.5±6.7 and 3.0±5.8, respectively). Therefore, RT practice did not promote significant increments in OA performance in recreational skateboarders.