Sajid Hussain, Mohibullah Khan Marwat, Amir Latif, Muhammad Awais, Rana Ibrar Ali, Kashif Mehmood
Research Journal for Social Affairs, 4(3(s2)), 265–271, 2026
Sixty-six footballers aged 18 to 26 were split into three groups — massage, stretching, and no treatment — over an eight-week block of five sessions a week. Massage produced by far the larger recovery effect (d = 2.87 against the control group); stretching also helped (d = 1.42) but mainly through flexibility and short-term relaxation rather than lasting recovery. The practical conclusion is that coaches should combine both rather than choose between them.
doi.org/10.71317/RJSA.004.03(s2).0904
Muhammad Awais, Soniha Aslam
Remittances Review, 9(4), 3238–3256, 2024
Forty-five national-level male volleyball players trained for eight weeks in three groups: plyometrics alone, plyometrics combined with digging-agility drills, and a control group. Both training groups improved, but the combined group gained most across agility, speed, balance, explosive strength and flexibility. The message for a volleyball coach is that plyometric work pays off, and pays off considerably more when it is paired with sport-specific defensive drills rather than done on its own.
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Policy Journal of Social Science Review
A review of how scientifically designed training programmes compare with traditional methods. Athletes on structured, monitored programmes showed better neuromuscular efficiency, movement quality and physiological adaptation, and fewer acute and overuse injuries. The paper also sets out what makes these programmes hard to run in practice: they need specialist expertise, monitoring equipment, and individual tailoring to each athlete.
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Sajid Hussain, Muhammad Awais, Rana Ibrar Ali
THE SKY — International Journal of Physical Education and Sports Sciences (IJPESS), 6, 47–57, 2022
Sixty third- and fourth-grade pupils across two elementary schools in District Okara were studied, half of them given sixty minutes of recess a day instead of thirty. The longer-break group scored significantly higher on English reading and recall afterwards. The argument for policymakers is that cutting break time to add teaching time may be self-defeating.
doi.org/10.51846/the-sky.v6i0.1212