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Monitoring of some indicators of physical fitness in a half-year cycle of training of top basketball players

In order to optimally plan and programme the training of top basketball players an insight into their current state of relevant abilities and knowledge is necessary. The purpose of this paper is the monitoring of the changes of some segments of sport preparedness during the half-year cycle of the training of top basket ball players.The sample of examinees was comprised of 11 senior top basketball players (1-A Croatian Basketball League, BC Karlovac), aged 18 &#8211 ; 27 years. Five tests were used for the assessment of the basic and specific sport form. The changes in the variables were analysed in four time points with an average interval of 30 days between the measurements. During the preparation period and during the first and the second competition phase in the time from 2nd August 1999 till 19th December 1999 (118 days) one hundred and twenty-two training units were carried out and nineteen games were played. Within 241 hours of training there were 47 days of rest (half-day and whole-day rests). The average duration of one training unit was 108.8 minutes, whereas the average intensity was 80% of the maximal. By means of the series of univariate analyses the statistical significance of differences between the repeated measurements was determined in each variable for the assessment of motor abilities. The results of the multivariate analysis of variance show that the applied training process led to the statistically significant differences (p-level 0.000) in all variables between the first and the other measurements. The decrease in the values of indicators in the analysed periods did not occur and the reason for this may be explained by several details connected with the system of training, competition and testing of abilities: 1. Competition system was obviously not too demanding ; 2. The training system gaved the players enough time to recover ; 3. The training system was optimally designed ; 4. The battery of tests for the assessment of sport preparedness was relatively small and it is for certain that the lack of tests for the assessment of all motor and functional abilities limits the conclusions of this research to the applied variables.

diagnostics ; basketball ; training effects

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