Procedures
Participants were assigned randomly to a control group (CG; n = 12) and an experimental group (EG; n = 12). The design of the study included two weeks of familiarization sessions for all physical assessments and exercises before starting the 8-week intervention program. Anthropometric characteristics were recorded 48 hours prior to testing. All participants were tested in two separate occasions with at least two days in between at the same time of day (from 3.00 pm to 5.00 pm) for both pre- and post assessments. Testing assessments followed a random selection. The same operator supervised the testing trials and their reliability was calculated using the Intraclass Correlation Coefficient (ICC). A high value was observed in the harre circuit test tests (ICC > 0.955) and lower quarter y balance test (ICC > 0.900 for both lower limbs)