One of the most well-liked team sports in the world is basketball. Every day, it is turning into a sport that is both competitive and fun as the show it offers is holding many people in front of the screens and filling most of the game halls all over the world. Many NBA and EUROLEAGUE players have become the idols of today’s generation and a source of inspiration for them. In terms of women’s basketball, the first such game was played in 1893 when Senda Berenson modified James Naismith’s basketball regulations for female players. In 1996, the professional Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) was established, garnering significant attention across the globe. The Albanian reality, as far as the massiveness
of this sport is concerned, appears positive because it ranks second in the country after football, but in terms of the level and quality of the players, we can say that we are at the lowest point of all time. There are many problems and this sport is going through its most difficult days. The missing infrastructure, the elements of organization, the lack of attention from the government , especially in terms of finances, the lack of a genuine sponsorship law that would make it possible to increase quality and increase the interest of young people to play this sport, are some of the key factors that affect the situation we are in. Team sports have raised the physical demands and their significance in recent years. Consequently, improving and evaluating one’s physical condition is crucial to success. (Mancha Triguero et al., 2020). According to (Aoki et al., 2017) appropriately determining training loads to enhance athletes’ physical performance while preventing overtraining and/or injury during the
competitive season is a significant difficulty in sports. In general, periodization plays a major role in attaining the best possible performance outcomes.
A Summary Of The Works On The Impact Of Training Loads In Basketball
Published in JPASE Journal (Volume 6, Issue 2, December 2023)
Abstract
The information on the amount of exercise required at various competitive levels in European youth basketball events stands in stark contrast to the reality in Albania. Basketball players’ anthropometric and physiological traits are crucial to their success. Therefore, the objectives of this thesis are to: 1) characterize the physical attributes of young Albanian basketball players during the course of a full basketball season; and 2) create and implement targeted loads in order to ensure that the level of young Albanian basketball players increases in accordance with the demands of basketball games at various competitive levels. The study’s anticipated findings will highlight the significance of developing strength and power as well as the capacity to maintain a high intensity load of intermittent exercise for success in basketball overall and competition at higher levels in particular. Examining the effects of the preparation time on specific basketball players’ neuromuscular characteristics (vertical jump ability and change of direction COD), this study will look at these changes. This study will also examine the connections between neuromuscular alterations in physical performance throughout the preliminary phase and training load indices. We’ll also look at how young female basketball players at various competitive levels’ physical fitness changed throughout the course of the basketball season. In general, the preparation period appears to minimally affect measurement variables during the vertical jump test, but improves aerobic capacity and the ability to sustain high-intensity intermittent exercise. Changes in physical performance during the competitive phases of the season appear to be influenced by the competitive level of play. The basic knowledge of specific endurance development and strength training has been well known in basketball for many years where fitness coaches have been important members of the coaching staff, especially before and during the in-season training phases where gains in physical qualities are of paramount importance. great. For this, it is necessary to identify and develop specific tests of physical ability for each sport. Due to the vast range of physical attributes that basketball players must possess, several tests have been established in the literature to evaluate physical fitness and discover skill in a variety of player samples. But no synthesis of the literature has yet been done to determine the most popular tests, outcome variables, and normative values for physical attributes associated with this sport among basketball players of various ages.Thus, the main purpose of this paper was to identify and group of different tests described in the literature until 2023. To find the tests most commonly used to evaluate basketball players’ physical fitness, a literature search was done across many databases.
Keywords
training loads, speed, agility, physical characteristics
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