Table 5.

Agility and balance test performances in experimental and control groups before and after the 8-week intervention.

	Experimental (n = 18)			Control (n = 18)			Variance Analysisp (${\eta }_p^2$)
	Test	Retest	d	Test	Retest	d	group	time	group × time
Change of direction Performance
Sprint 4 x 5 m (s)	6.12 ± 0.36	5.49 ± 0.30	1.91	6.15 ± 0.25	5.99 ± 0.21	0.70	0.009 (0.183)	<0.001 (0.980)	<0.001 (0.947)
Sprint 9-3-6-3-9 m with backward and forward running (s)	8.20 ± 0.52	7.50 ± 0.44	1.46	8.16 ± 0.40	7.96 ± 0.35	0.51	0.156 (0.058)	<0.001 (0.965)	<0.001 (0.898)
Repeated Change of Direction Ability parameters
Fastest time (s)	6.53 ± 0.35	5.95 ± 0.32	1.73	6.49 ± 0.27	6.37 ± 0.25	0.46	0.065 (0.097)	<0.001 (0.983)	<0.001 (0.962)
Mean time (s)	6.63 ± 0.36	6.05 ± 0.33	1.68	6.61 ± 0.26	6.49 ± 0.24	0.48	0.046 (0.112)	<0.001 (0.982)	<0.001 (0.959)
Stork balance test
Right leg (s)	13.5 ± 4.69	22.7 ± 6.95	1.58	13.3 ± 5.33	14.0 ± 5.34	0.13	0.023 (0.143)	<0.001 (0.902)	<0.001 (0.870)
Left leg (s)	11.1 ± 2.39	19.0 ± 3.66	2.61	11.3 ± 3.41	12.1 ± 3.44	0.23	0.004 (0.221)	<0.001 (0.951)	<0.001 (0.929)

Meaningful effects (criteria: p < 0.05 and ${\eta }_p^2$ > 0.15) are highlighted in bold.