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- Acute effects of sprinting with a sledge upon regular sprinting performancePublication . Teixeira, Amaro Jorge de Sousa; Marinho, Daniel Almeida; Tillaar, Roland van denThe aim of this study was to investigate the acute effect of sprinting with a sledge upon running performances in sprint. Thirty four (23 men and 11 women) secondary school and university students with athletics experience (age 20.21 ? 3.22yr, mass 65.04 ? 10.89 kg, 171.21 height ? 8.29 cm) participated in the study. The subjects performed this protocol in a two non-consecutive days, doing a rest day or easy training between the days of protocol. This protocol consisted of each participant perform each day a group of sprints, one day 7x60m alternating with normal and sledge running and the other day 7x60m of normal running. The weight of the sledge was 10% of body mass of each participant. It was found that training with the sledge or without it have the same training effect, thus there is no acute effect of sprinting with a sledge upon running performances in sprint. It is concluded that when an athlete reports that felt running faster after using sledge it seems ir is only a subjective feeling.