Ramazan SANLAV^1,, M. Zahit SERARSLAN²

It was aimed in our study to research the impact of certain physical parameters on components of motoric features such as speed, strength and flexibility in boys aged 13 to 15 years old playing football through regular exercises of 6-week training program. A training program of 6 weeks that includes motoric feature components were applied on a total of 56 male athletes playing football in a licensed U13-U14-U15 teams of Beylikgücü Sports Football Club in Beylikdüzü county of Istanbul. The trainings continued as 4 days a week and a game in the weekend. The first day the footballers participated in the study, their preliminary test values were taken and following the six-week training program, their last measurements were taken and later these were compared. Descriptive statistics were used in the analysis of the data acquired in the study, and Wilcoxon analysis was used as non-parametric methods in hypothesis tests. The reason why non-parametric tests were preferred was because the variables were determined not to have distributed normally in Kolmogorov Smirnov test conducted to determine whether the dependent variables showed normal distribution. The acquired findings were evaluated in the confidence interval of 95% and at the significance level of 5%. A significant difference (p<0.01) was determined between the calf, back, biceps, femur, subscapularis, triceps, abdomen, suprailiac circumference and fat measurements and right hand grip and left hand grip strength, ten meters (sprint) running, flexibility and sit and lie down measurements of the test subjects before and after the 6-week training program. In spite of this, it was seen that there was no significance difference in vertical jumping, sit-up, push-up and thirty meters (sprint) measurements. As a result, almost a twofold increase was observed in the hand grip strengths of the age group 13 – 15 in comparison to the age groups of 10-12 and 11-13, and while our study shows parallelism with the adolescent age groups in literature, it draws the attention to the twofold increase in the age group of 15.

adolescent, football, motoric components