Players’ views about how the control (n=250) or neuromuscular control (NMC; n=192) exercise-training programmes compared with their previous training
| Player response | Programme type | Question asked | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Of more benefit to your performance | More relevant to the game | Harder | More enjoyable | More of a physical challenge | Better at preventing injury | Boring | Not challenging enough | Too time consuming | Too much effort | ||
| No | NMC | 38 (20.0%) | 57 (29.8%) | 113 (59.5%) | 39 (20.5%) | 87 (45.8%) | 24 (12.6%) | 84 (44.0%) | 89 (46.6%) | 84 (44.2%) | 134 (70.2%) |
| Control | 47 (19.0%) | 57 (23.2%) | 111 (44.8%) | 88 (35.8%) | 87 (35.2%) | 43 (17.4%) | 87 (35.5%) | 114 (46.5%) | 94 (38.2%) | 167 (67.6%) | |
| Yes | NMC | 74 (38.9%) | 73 (38.2%) | 22 (11.6%) | 78 (41.1%) | 51 (26.8%) | 103 (53.9%) | 48 (25.1%) | 49 (25.7%) | 64 (33.7%) | 20 (10.5%) |
| Control | 88 (35.5%) | 117 (47.6%) | 64 (25.8%) | 64 (26.0%) | 80 (32.4%) | 108 (43.7%) | 89 (36.3%) | 51 (51.0%) | 104 (42.3%) | 33 (13.4%) | |
| Same | NMC | 45 (23.7%) | 34 (17.8%) | 33 (17.4%) | 58 (30.5%) | 38 (20.0%) | 24 (12.6%) | 42 (22.0%) | 31 (16.2%) | 24 (12.6%) | 21 (11.0%) |
| Control | 75 (30.2%) | 47 (19.1%) | 61 (24.6%) | 79 (32.1%) | 66 (26.7%) | 55 (22.3%) | 53 (21.6%) | 55 (22.4%) | 35 (14.2%) | 37 (15.0%) | |
| Don't know | NMC | 33 (17.4%) | 27 (14.1%) | 22 (11.6%) | 15 (7.9%) | 14 (7.4%) | 40 (20.9%) | 17 (8.9%) | 22 (11.5%) | 18 (9.5%) | 16 (8.4%) |
| Control | 38 (15.3%) | 25 (10.2%) | 12 (4.8%) | 15 (6.1%) | 14 (5.7%) | 41 (16.6%) | 16 (6.5%) | 25 (10.2%) | 13 (5.3%) | 10 (4.0%) | |
| Statistical comparison across programmes | χ23=2.376 (p=0.498) | χ23=5.518 (p=0.138) | χ23=24.561 (p<0.001) | χ23=24.561 (p=0.001) | χ23=6.636 (p=0.084) | χ23=10.699; (p=0.013) | χ23=7.047 (p=0.070) | χ23=3.372 (p=0.338) | χ23=5.847 (p=0.119) | χ23=5.536 (p=0.137) | |
Responses to questions are given as frequencies and percentages of all responding players in each programme.