Effects of 8-weeks Surf Skateboard training on physical fitness in young people

Abstract

Background: Surf skateboards have grown in popularity among young people in recent years. However, no research studies have analyzed the effect of surf skateboarding on physical fitness.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of 8-week surf skateboard training on physical fitness in young adults.

Methods: Twenty-two young people, ages 18-24 years were randomly assigned into two groups: a control (CON; n ​= ​11) and surf skateboarding (SSK; n ​= ​11) group. The surf skateboard training group received an eight-week intervention consisting of three 60-minute (min) sessions per week, while the control group continued with their normal daily lives. Physical fitness was assessed before and after the intervention through a battery of tests that included body composition, cardiorespiratory fitness, muscular strength and endurance, flexibility, and balance.

Results: The results showed that the SSK group demonstrated significant (p ​< ​0.05) improvements in maximum voluntary ventilation, back and leg strength, lower body muscular endurance by the sit-to-stand tests, and balance in all direction compared with the pre-test and the CON group. In addition, the SSK group showed significantly (p ​< ​0.05) decreased body weight, body mass index, percent body fat, and resting heart rate, while increased maximum oxygen consumption, pulmonary function, respiratory muscle strength, upper body muscular endurance by the sit-up test and flexibility compared with the pre-test.

Conclusion: The findings suggest that surf skateboard training have an effective physical activity intervention to improve body composition, ca rdiorespiratory fitness, muscular strength and endurance, flexibility, and balance in young people.

Keywords

Exercise / Action sport / Cardiorespiratory fitness / Balance / Muscular strength and endurance

CRediT authorship contribution statement

Sangarun Kaewcham: Writing - original draft, Visualization, Vali-dation, Methodology, Formal analysis, Data curation, Conceptualization. Wannaporn Tongtako: Writing - review & editing, Writing - original draft, Visualization, Validation, Supervision, Software, Resources, Proj-ect administration, Methodology, Investigation, Funding acquisition, Formal analysis, Data curation, Conceptualization.

Ethical approval statement

The study was approved by the Research Ethics Review Committee for Research Involving Humans at Chulalongkorn University (COA No. 111/65), and all participants provided written, informed consent.

Data availability statement

The data that support the findings of this study are not publicly available due to privacy data of participant but are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

Declaration of competing interest

The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

Acknowledgements

We sincerely appreciate all the volunteers who contributed their time and effort to this study. This study was supported by Exercise Physiology in Special Population Research Unit, and Faculty of Sports Science Fund, Chulalongkorn University.

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