Alteration of physical, technical fitness and sport performance in competition period of Lithuanian basketball center youth (aged 16-17) female basketball players

Subject of study – alteration of physical, technical fitness and sport performance of Lithuanian Basketball Center youth basketball female players in competitive period. Problem of study – does sport performance indicators remain stabil in eight months duration of competitve period or alterats adequate to technical and physical fitness in youth female basketball? Hypothesis: testing assessing indicators of specific athletic and technical fitness make assumptions to predict sport performance. The aim – to assess alteration of physical, technical fitness and sport performance in youth (aged 16–17) girls basketball players during the competition period and the interaction between testing performance and sport performance. Objectives: 1. To assess and evaluate technical, physical fitness and interaction between them in youth (16–17 years old) Lithuanian Basketball Center female basketball players. 2. To assess and evaluate alteration of sport performance in youth (16–17 years old) Lithuanian Basketball Center female basketball players of game indicators. 3. To assess features of playing and technical performance in youth (16–17 years old) Lithuanian Basketball Center female basketball players. 4. To assess and evaluate shooting diversity according rank of competition level and playing position in youth (16–17 years old) Lithuanian Basketball Center female basketball players. Participants: female basketball players from Lithuanian basketball center (16–17 years old), played in Lithuanian Women Basketball League „A“ (2010–2011 year) and National Women Basketball League (2011–2012 year). Conclusions: technical fitness performance of shooting in standart environment inreased and performed stable level in play-off stage, but unstable in competition environment. Ten weeks of training in competitive period is needed in order stable fitness level of specific locomotion speed, agility and specific endurance in youth female basketball players. Implementation: for monitoring tasks during competitve period it is highly recomended to asses physical and technical fitness and sport performance in order to apply adequate training program for improving individual skill in training and competitive environment of youth basketball players

Analysis of adequacy of physical load intensity of young female basketball players during training sessions and matches

Even in the 1980s the heart rate was considered to be an objective and informative index of players’ response to physical loads and their physical fitness. The course of a basketball match or a training session is not uniform, the heart rate changes together with the intensity of the game, making shots, during a minute break, etc. Thus the mean index of the changing heart rate when the intensity of the game changes creates undulate sets of data. Aiming to obtain optimal changes in training we must apply the most appropriate physical loads for training sessions and matches which matched the adaptive abilities of basketball players, the aims and objectives of their physical training. The aim of the study was to evaluate the intensity of physical load and its adequacy during the training sessions and matches. Research objectives were as follows: to establish the intensity of physical loads during the training sessions and matches; to evaluate the relative degree of adequacy of physical loads in training sessions and matches; to reveal the peculiarities of 14-15 year-old basketball players’ response to specific physical loads. Research results. We studied 18 female basketball players.During the training sessions the dominant index of physical load intensity (HR) of guards was 186.5 ± 7.8 bt / min, forwards – 162.6 ± 6.5 bt / min, and centers – 156.6 ± 6.6 bt / min. During the matches the dominant index of physical load intensity (HR) of guards was 180.8 ± 7.85 bt / min, forwards – 156.2 ± 7.4 bt / min, and centers – 150.6 ± 11.72 bt / min. During the matches the guards demonstrated the greatest heart rate in the first quarter (183.7 ± 3 bt / min), forwards – in the second quarter (156.9 ± 6.4 bt / min) and centers – in the third quarter (153.5 ± 5.5 bt / min). Physical load intensity of the studied female basketball players (guards, forwards and centers) was within the limits of almost maximal intensity of physical loads. The bodies of young female basketball players performing different functions in the game reacted differently to physical loads of various intensities: the heart rates of guards during physical loads were higher than those of forwards and centers. Centers reacted to physical loads least of all