Statistical analysis
Study data were analyzed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences software (version 26.0). Age, sports age, weekly training frequency, and anthropometric measurements of both the intervention and control groups were presented as descriptive statistics. Due to the non-normal distribution of the data, the Mann–Whitney U test was employed for comparisons between the 2 groups. To compare the changes in anthropometric measurements, sport-specific performance tests, US muscle thickness measurements, and isokinetic measurements between the pretest and post-test measurements of the intervention and control groups, the ANCOVA (Analysis of Covariance) test was utilized. The level of statistical significance was set at 