Acute effect of high and low intensity hours karate training towards explosive power and flexibility among young karate athletes/ Nadzirah Tuwah

The purpose ofthis study was to examine the effects ofthe short term karate training with high and low intensity hours oftraining towards explosive power and flexibility among young karate athletes. Sample size for this study was 24 subjects (N=24) of age between 8-12 years old, were randomly assigned to two groups which is high intensity group and low intensity group. The results from the acute effects between high and low intensity karate training was found in no significant in both pre test and post test for standing long jump and sit and reach. This shows that the improvements from both groups were not significantly different between groups that in a different duration oftraining for both motor abilities components. Through this finding, it was proved that by applying short term karate training for both different group intensity hours are less effective to be used to see the effects between low and high intensity hours training towards the flexibility and explosive power.