Efeitos de um protocolo de pilates solo para jogadores juvenis de voleibol

Abstract

Pilates method was created on the decade of 1920. It has six principles and its objective is to encourage movement control, by using body awareness, apart from improve sport performance, coordination and blood circulation, emphasizing general body flexibility, which improves muscular strength and posture, associated with breathing. Such benefits help to prevent injuries and provide relief of chronic pain. The researches about the effects of Pilates methods in different areas has been increasing, meanly if related to rehabilitation. However, there is a small number of researches evaluating the method effects on athletes, which generates the need of new studies that investigate these effects. Thus, the objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of Pilates methods protocol for young Volleyball players. It was a study characterized as a comparative, experimental, not-controlled and intervention type. All athletes of the young men volleyball team, in Uberaba – MG, were recruited. For the assessment, the following tools were used: fleximeter, Wells’s bench, dynamometer, surface electromyography, sport specific core muscle test and sargent jump test. The Pilates method protocol was applied 3 days/week, for 8 weeks, during 30 minutes, before athletes usual training. As partial results, it will be presented two studies with the effects of Pilates method protocol applied over young volleyball players flexibility, activation and endurance of the core muscles.