Effect of post activation potentiation on muscle power and muscle strength among football player U 17 / Nurul Hidayah Shoodi

This study was conducted in order to investigate the effect of Post Activation Potentiation in muscle power and muscle strength among football player age U17. Twenty three football players performed in this study. These tests are pre experimental design. Each subject followed the intervention for 4 weeks. The test is Standing Long Jump (SLJ) for measuring muscle power and 3RM Back Squat (BS) for measuring muscle strength. Subject need to perform pre-test and post-test in this study. Paired Sample T-Test was used to see the significant of SLJ. However, 3RN BS test use Wilcoxon Signed Rank test to see the significant. Statiscal analysis showed both power and strength were significant (p<0.05) after 4 weeks of PAP training. Therefore, PAP training seem giving an improvement to power and strength for football player.