The analysis of trunk muscle stabilization training in football players

The practice and the implementation of a full-body stabilisation programme favours strength training as well as the prevention of muscular imbalances.As regards the specific performance development of football players, it is particularly useful to prevent hyperlordosis and functional changes of parameters relating to the athlete’s motor skills. The strengthening of the trunk muscles becomes supplementary training due to the fact that it influences the capacity to contract abdominal muscles, the rectus abdominis and the back extensor muscles. Some exercises to improve the elasticity and joint mobility of the spine are described from an operational point of view. By means of practical application, this type of functional training determines the improvement of the excursion and movement direction of the kinetic chains together with the trunk muscle groups involved, contributing to the increase of muscle tone and to the prevention of accidents.Therefore, among the training objectives, the strengthening and improvement of motor skills in terms of flexibility has proved to be effective.