Description

Adaptive sports offer individuals with physical disabilities opportunities for competitive and recreational engagement, promoting physical fitness, social interaction and overall wellbeing. Among these sport, bocce stands out as a precision ball sport similar to bowling, requiring players to develop fine motor skills, coordination and upper body strength for effective throwing. Enhancing upper body strength, coordination and endurance is crucial for improving performance in bocce especially for adaptive players who may have physical limitation. This study aims to provide evidence for the incorporation of battle rope training into the training routines of young adaptive bocce players. Positive results could lead of the broader adoption of battle rope exercise, thereby enhancing athletic performance and physical fitness in adaptive sports. This study will be randomized controlled trial. It will include 18 young adaptive bocce players aged 10 to 18 years who meet the inclusion criteria, such as having a physical disability that qualifies them for adaptive sports, being able to understand and follow instruction, and having no recent injuries or surgeries that would contraindicated exercise.

Participant will be randomly assigned to either the experimental group, which will undergo a structured battle rope training or the control group which will continue with their regular bocce training regimen. The battle rope training program will be designed to enhance upper body strength, endurance, and coordination and will be conducted three times a week for 8 weeks pre and post intervention will include measurement of bocce throwing performance, especially accuracy and distance, as well as upper body strength and endurance tests, such as grip strength, the number of rope slams performed in a given time and shoulder endurance tests. Dynamometer is used to measure weight and pull forces.

Data will be analyzed through SPSS version 23