Study design
The current study was conducted in accordance to the Helsinki declaration guidelines. The ethics committee of TU Dortmund University read and approved the study protocol. Participation was voluntary, and before study commencement, all participants signed a written informed consent letter. In a randomized crossover design, participants conducted two warm-up modalities with a 1-week washout phase in between. Following the application of each warm-up, participants’ performance was tested using a standardized test battery for performance assessment. To reach the best allocation concealment and avoid the learning effect from occasion to occasion, an ABBA approach was applied [