The aim of this study was to examine the training load (TL) profile of professional elite level basketball players during the crucial parts of the competitive season (pre-play-off finals). Subjects were 8 full-time professional basketball players (age 28 +/- 3.6 years, height 199 +/-7.2 cm, body mass 102 +/- 11.5 kg, and body fat 10.4 +/- 1.5%) whose heart rate (HR) was recorded during each tra...

Exploring the effect of non-impact and impact sports is particular relevant to understand the interaction between skeletal muscle and bone health during growth. The current study aimed to compare total and regional bone and soft-tissue composition, in parallel to measurements of blood lipid and inflammatory profiles between adolescent athletes and non-athletes. Anthropometry, biological maturit...

BACKGROUND Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries often occur during landing, with female athletes at higher injury risk than male athletes. Interestingly, female dancers have lower ACL injury rates than do female athletes in general. HYPOTHESIS Female dancers will have earlier and greater lower extremity muscle activity and higher sagittal knee joint and leg stiffness than will female bas...

Sport ability may be seen as relatively stable, genetically determined and not easily modified by practice, or as increasable with training, work and effort. Using the Implicit Association Test (IAT), the purpose of the present study is to examine whether the practice of a particular sport (swimming or basketball) can influence automatic beliefs about sport ability in these two sports. The IAT ...

Basketball is constantly booming with China’s material and cultural levels development. And basketball reserve personnel quantity and quality stand for a nation basketball level. On the current all countries basketball levels rapidly development situation in the world, cultivation of basketball reserve personnel has become an indispensible condition to be in an invincible position in intense ba...

In both children and adults, acute exercise increases lung capillary blood volume (Vc) and membrane factor (DmCO). We sought to determine whether basketball training affected this adaptation to exercise in children. The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of two years sport activity on the components of pulmonary gas transfer in children. Over a 2-yr period, we retested 60 nine y...

Background. Emotional competencies of individuals are evaluated as a form of capital today. Emotional capital has gained prominence in literature in the last decades. In this regard, qualitative and quantitative studies on emotional capital concept have been conducted. Objectives. The purpose of this study is to analyses the effect of emotional capital on job satisfaction and life satisfaction...

ABSTRACT Introduction: The training should be performed according to the characteristics of basketball by establishing a scientific evaluation index system fully exploit potential its players. Objective: Evaluate for measuring physical specific Methods: indexes athletes were studied checking literature and mathematical statistics, an young players was designed experimented. Results: highest pro...

In December 2010, 24 players and staff members from 13 National Basketball Association teams were affected with gastroenteritis symptoms. Four of 5 stool specimens from ill players and staff tested positive for norovirus genogroup II. We document evidence of transmission both within teams and, potentially, between teams in 2 instances.

Background: The research problem was determined by the unsatisfactory level and results of Al-Hilla Basketball Club youth players in 2018/2019 season. Objective: Determine cause weakness that present offensive skill performance, it necessary to determine rates violations performance. As researchers didn’t find a scientific dealt with ratios effect performance goal is proportions type basketball...