Archive of Journal
Volume 81, Issue 6, Jun. 2025

EXAMINATION OF AEROBIC AND ANAEROBIC CAPACITY OF INTENSIVE INTERVAL TRAINING PROGRAM APPLIED TO 10-12 AGE TENNIS ATHLETES

Volume 81, Jun 2025
doi: 10.21506/j.ponte.2025.6.1

View Abstract   Hide Abstract   |   PDF Version
Abstract: The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of intensive interval training program applied to tennis players aged 10-12 on aerobic and anaerobic capacity. The study group consists of 20 male and female participants (experimental: 10, control: 10) between the ages of 10-12 who have been active in tennis for at least 2 years and who participate in tennis training at Afyonkarahisar Youth and Sports Provincial Directorate. An intensive interval training program was applied to the participants in the experimental group for an eight-week period. The participants in the experimental group received an intensive interval training program 3 days a week and a tennis training program 3 days a week during the 8-week training period, while the control group received the tennis training program applied to the experimental group for 6 days a week. Standing long jump, grip strength, 30-sec shuttle run with supported feet, 20m sprint, V Cut test and 20m shuttle run test measurements were taken from all participants before and after the 8-week program. In evaluating the pre- and post-training measurement results, repeated measures anova main effect test was applied for mixed measurements and a value of 0.05 was considered significant.

Author(s): Orhan KUCUK, Ismaıl KAYA


RESEARCH ON THE ATTİTUDES OF WOMEN WHO REGULARLY EXERCİSE İN GYMS TOWARDS HEALTHY NUTRİTİON (BİLECİK CİTY CENTER EXAMPLE)

Volume 81, Jun 2025
doi: 10.21506/j.ponte.2025.6.2

View Abstract   Hide Abstract   |   PDF Version
Abstract: The aim of this study is to investigate the attitudes of women who regularly exercise in gyms in Bilecik city center towards healthy nutrition. 200 women participated in the study voluntarily. The ‘Attitude Scale Towards Healthy Nutrition’ developed by Tekkurşun Demir and Cicioğlu (2019) was used as the data collection tool. No statistically significant differences were found in the sub-dimensions of knowledge about nutrition, feelings towards nutrition and positive nutrition according to the working status of the women participating in the study, knowledge about nutrition, feelings towards nutrition, and positive nutrition according to the settlement where they have lived for a long time, monthly personal income, years of exercise, leisure activities and smoking status (p>0.05). Statistically significant differences were found in the sub-dimensions of positive nutrition habits and bad nutrition habits from the healthy nutrition habits according to the educational status, bad nutrition habits according to the working status, and bad nutrition habits from the healthy nutrition habits according to the smoking status (p>0.05). In the evaluation of the data, it was observed that the data were normally distributed by looking at the Skewness and Kurtosis values, whether the prerequisites of the parametric tests were met or not, since they were in the range of -1.0±1.0. Since the data showed a normal distribution, Independent Sample T-Test, One-Way Anova analysis tests were applied to the data as statistical analysis.

Author(s): Kübra KAYA, Erdal Demir