Abstract Change of direction speed, reaction time, sprint and explosive strength are important factors that determine athletes’ performance in the majority sports. From practical standpoint, it is interest to investigate what extent they differ among athletes team individual We compared 7 handball, 11 basketball, 15 male table tennis players four time tests, 505 Agility test, 5m 20m sprints, sq...

The aim of this study was to examine the injury profile Japanese university handball players. In cross-sectional study, a total 1017 participants who played in 2018 National University Handball Championship were followed. incidence within previous year 0.59 [95% CI, confidence interval: 0.56-0.62] per player year. ankle (33.3%), knee (23.6%), and shoulder/clavicle (12.6%) body regions most affe...

In team-handball competition, the players utilize various throwing techniques that differ in the lower body movements (with and without run-up or jump). These different lower body movements influence changes in the upper body movements and thus also affect the performance. A comprehensive analysis of 3D-kinematics of team-handball throws that may explain these differences in performance is lack...

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the influence of different degrees of opposition on ball velocity in the jump throw in elite, amateur and adolescent team handball players. Thus, one hundred and nineteen elite, amateur and under 18 team handball players performed jump throws under three different conditions: 1) without opposition, 2) with the opposition of the goalkeeper and ...

Lack of motivation to exercise was reported as a major cause of sedentary behavior in adulthood. This descriptive study examines the acute physical and physiological demands of recreational team handball and evaluates whether it could be suggested as an exercise mode for fitness and health enhancement in 33-55-year-old untrained men. Time-motion, heart rate (HR), and blood lactate analyses were...

The purpose of this study was to examine the injury incidence and pattern of injuries in youth female and male team handball players using two different prospective registration methods; match reports (90 teams, 1080 players) and coach reports (34 teams, 428 players). A total of 118 injuries were recorded by the coach report, of which 93 (79%) were acute injuries (incidence training: 0.9+/-0.16...

Many team sports include complex human movement, which can be observed at different levels of detail. Some aspects of the athlete's motion can be studied in detail using commercially available high-speed, high-accuracy biomechanical measurement systems. However, due to their limitations, these devices are not appropriate for studying large-scale motion during a game (for example, the motion of ...

Processes responsible for improvements in motor performance are often contrasted in an explicit and an implicit part. Explicit learning enables task success by using strategic (declarative) knowledge. Implicit learning refers to a change in motor performance without conscious effort. In this study, we tested the contribution of explicit and implicit processes in a visuomotor adaptation task in ...

The Eysenck′s personality questionnaire for evaluating extroversion-introversion, neuroticism, psychoticism and dissimulation was applied on the sample of 72 junior handball players, aged 17-18 yrs, with the purpose of establishing the differences between efficient and less efficient players according to their personality traits. The evaluation of competition performance was done on the basis o...

BACKGROUND Data obtained on an isokinetic dynamometer are useful to characterize muscle status and have been reported in muscle imbalance studies in different types of sport. However, few studies have assessed elite handball players to establish reference values. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to compare, for the dominant (D) and non-dominant (ND) side, the isokinetic profile of shou...