Os Efeitos do treinamento pliométrico na força dos membros inferiores de praticantes de esportes com oposição por rede: uma revisão integrativa

Abstract

Almeida and Rogatto (2007), citing Barbanti (1998), state that plyometric training uses jumping exercises that aim to produce an isometric muscle overload, with great muscular tension, involving the stretch reflex in the muscles. For Dantas (2003), plyometric exercises promote the development of explosive strength, also called “eccentric-concentric or negative dynamic strength training”, as it causes an eccentric or negative isotonic force on the muscle spindle. The present work aims to verify the effects of plyometric training on the strength of the lower limbs of practitioners of sports with net opposition. In order to achieve this goal, a systematic review was carried out, using Scielo, Oasis and Pubmed databases as research platforms, and applying the keywords “plyometrics” and “muscle strength” to the search engines. There were selected researches published between 2000 and 2021, both in English and in Portuguese. It could be noticed that the plyometric training, in most cases, is effective for improving the strength of the lower limbs of practitioners of sports with net opposition, in addition to providing improvement in other physical capacities such as muscle power, directly linked to agility, speed and strength gain. It is suggested to those interested in this line of research to carry out more papers involving isolated plyometrics with muscle strength, as well as plyometrics with Badminton, since those were the areas identified as having the highest scarcity rate.