Does Bilateral Practice Improve Dominant Side Performance by James Filewood https://padlet.com/jfilewoo/guhx5n7jb7gt James Filewood, 220112173, EXSC239 en-us 2019-04-13 00:24:45 UTC 2025-12-02 17:00:46 UTC hello@padlet.com https://imgglb.padletcdn.com/v13/image?t=g_auto&url=https%3A%2F%2Fpadlet.net%2Ficons%2Fpng%2F1f3c0.png Is bilateral practice more effective than unilateral practice for improving dominant side performance? jfilewoo https://padlet.com/jfilewoo/guhx5n7jb7gt/wish/351432389
  • In a lot of sport use of both sides of the body or both limbs can be advantageous to performance. Examples of this are soccer, AFL and cricket.
  • Other sports mainly use on side of the body such as long jump where one foot is used to jump off.
  • Dominant limbs/ sides are developed through only unilateral practice and negligence to the other side of the body.
  • Bilateral practice is most often done to improve the weaker side/ limb of the body.
  • The research question seeks to understand whether by practicing bilaterally greater performance can be achieved than only practicing unilaterally in both sports that are performed unilaterally and bilaterally

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  • This research included a 12 week training program where bilateral long jump training was done in one group and in another unilateral training .
  • Testing was done before the training period and after, also a retention test was completed three weeks after the training period.
  • The research highlighted that the groups who practiced bilaterally achieved better performance in the post training test and retention test on their dominant compared to those who trained solely on their dominant leg.
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  • This research concentrated on soccer players training bilaterally and unilaterally.
  • They were tested using soccer specific tests such as .
  • Participants from the bilateral training highlighted significant improvements to their weaker foot and also demonstrated greater improvements to their dominant side compared to the unilateral training group.

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  • Based upon the findings research would next point to why training bilaterally improves both sides of the body more the training unilateral on each. 
  • A possible reason for this may be that the unilateral training plans were causing overtraining due to inadequate rest and therefore poor performance.
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  • Based upon gathered research bilateral training will result greater performances on both the dominant side and weaker side than unilaterally training each side individually.
  • Thus, training bilaterally is more efficient in that it benefits both the dominant and non-dominant in the same session.
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  • Similarly to the other research, bilateral training improved both dominant and non-dominant hands for the dribbling task.
  • The non dominant dribbling improved drastically and the dominant hand dribble improved marginally compared to unilateral training.
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