The onset effect of proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation (pnf) on peak power among adolescent football player / Akmal Hazim Anuar

As we know, football can be considered as the most popular sport in the world. Football is a team sport and they played between two teams of eleven with a spherical ball. In other words, leg extensor power ability is a very important factor for performance, especially in sports such as basketball, football, volleyball, and other sports which require too many explosive actions. The purpose of this study is to measure the effectiveness of PNF stretching towards peak power for adolescent football players. A total of 25 (N=25) players of SMK Seri Ampangan adolescent football players (mean±SD of age, 13.32 ± .476, mean±SD of height, 155.88±8.238 and mean±SD weight, 43.36±8.123) were selected via purposive sampling participated in this study. Paired sample t-test were used to measure the differences between pre-post on lower limb peak power before and after PNF stretching. Finding from this study for pre m = 5151 (237) post m= 5309 (229.2) mean different pre post = 157.8 (262.5). Thus, this study finding reject null hypothesis effect of onset PNF stretching on peak power production among adolescent football players. Therefore, this conclude PNF stretching can improve the peak power production among the adolescent football players.