The effect of circuit training, fartlek, and small-sided games on maximum oxygen consumption capacity building in futsal players

Abstract

Purpose : This research aims to assess the effect of circuit training, fartlek, and small-sided games on futsal players' maximum oxygen consumption capacity.
 Material and methods. This research was carried out at the Upik Indoor Futsal Banjarmasin field from May to June. The treatment consists of 16 meetings held three times a week. This research applies a random pre- and post-test control group design. Players from the FFC BSM Junior Futsal Club make up the population.
 The results. As a result of the employment of sampling formulas and inclusion and exclusion criteria, forty individuals were included in this study. The adopted instrument is a multistage fitness test with a validity of 0.408 and reliability of 0.875. Data analysis using the help of SPSS includes normality, homogeneity, and hypothesis tests. The findings of this study's normality test indicated that the mean of each group achieved a significance level of > 0.05. Therefore it can be assumed that the data were normally distributed. Meanwhile, the homogeneity test results got a significance value of > 0.05, which can be considered homogeneous or the same data. This study showed that the three training groups showed a significant increase in the maximum oxygen consumption capacity of futsal players by obtaining a significance value of < 0.05. In contrast, the control group got a significance value of > 0.197, and It can be concluded that there was no significant influence. The study also showed that small-sided game training groups improved better than circuit training groups, fartlek groups, and control groups. The increase obtained from the small-sided games group, judging from the average difference value of the small-sided games training group, increased by 4.11, the circuit training group increased by 3.71, the fartlek group increased by 3.78, and the control group increased by 0.48.
 Conclusion. Thus, it can be concluded that circuit training, fartlek, and small-sided games positively impact the improvement maximum oxygen consumption capacity in futsal players. However, the small-sided game training methods group found the greatest improvement in training methods in this study.