Dušan Nikolić, Miodrag Kocić, Dragana Berić, Marina Veličković

Due to the evolution of sports science, as well as monitoring and applying knowledge from other sciences, researchers and trainers are always finding new and acceptable methods for the development of sports skills. One of the most interesting innovations in 20th century training is plyometric training. In addition to plyometric training, in the 70s of the 20th century, researchers have found that weight training can increase power. In the early eighties, it was concluded that combined plyometric training and weight training – or complex training, gives better results than just weight training without plyometric training. The aim of this study was to gather previous studies that have examined the effects of complex training on motor skills on different respondent samples. For collection, classification and analysis of the targeted research, the descriptive methods and theoretical analysis were used and the results that were reached were researched on Google, Google Scholar, PubMed and Kobson. Some 18 researches were found. The results showed that the majority of authors dealt with the effects of complex training on explosive leg strength, while a small number of studies examined the effects of the aforementioned training methods on other motor skills. The results of the reviewed studies have shown that complex training may be a suitable method for developing explosive leg strength and the running speed of athletes from different sports.

Keywords: complex training, the development of motor skills, science, effects, research review

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