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Randomized Controlled Trial
. 2022 Jan 1;19(1):462.
doi: 10.3390/ijerph19010462.

Postactivation Performance Enhancement (PAPE) Increases Vertical Jump in Elite Female Volleyball Players

Lamberto Villalon-Gasch  1 , Alfonso Penichet-Tomas  1 , Sergio Sebastia-Amat  1 , Basilio Pueo  1 , Jose M Jimenez-Olmedo  1
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Randomized Controlled Trial

Postactivation Performance Enhancement (PAPE) Increases Vertical Jump in Elite Female Volleyball Players

Lamberto Villalon-Gasch et al. Int J Environ Res Public Health. .

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to verify if a conditioning activity was effective to elicit postactivation performance enhancement (PAPE) and to increase the performance in vertical jump (VJ) in elite female volleyball players. Eleven national Superliga-2 volleyball players (22.6 ± 3.5 years) were randomly assigned to an experimental and control group. Countermovement jumps (CMJ) were performed on eight occasions: before (Pre-PAPE) and after activation (Post-PAPE), after the match (Pre-Match), and after each of the five-match sets (Set 1 to 5). ANOVA showed significantly increased jump performance for the experiment between baseline (Pre-PAPE) and all the following tests: +1.3 cm (Post-PAPE), +3.0 cm (Pre-Match), +4.8 cm (Set 1), +7.3 cm (Set 2), +5.1 cm (Set 3), +3.6 cm (Set 4), and +4.0 cm (Set 5), all showing medium to large effect size (0.7 < ES < 2.4). The performance of the control group did not show significant increases until Set 3 (+3.2 cm) and Set 5 (+2.9 cm), although jump heights were always lower for the control group than the experimental. The use of conditioning activity generates increased VJ performance in Post-PAPE tests and elicited larger PAPE effects that remain until the second set of a volleyball match.

Keywords: PAP; RM; back squat; countermovement jump; sports performance; training.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

Figures

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Figure 1
Experimental design of the study¸ RM: Repetition maximum; CMJ: Countermovement jump; PAPE: Post-activation performance enhancement FIVB: Fedération Internationalle de Volleyball.
Figure 2
Figure 2
Comparison of the improvement values from Pre-PAPE performance expressed as percentage. * Significant difference between experimental and control groups at the time points: pre-PAPE, Pre-match and Set 1, Set 2, Set 3, Set 4, and Set 5. Bars, whiskers, and dots represent mean, standard deviation and individual values, respectively.
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