In a well-conducted study, Marin et al. [1] reported significant alterations of oxidative stress biomarkers, antioxidant capacity, and indices of muscular damage in elite handball players after a friendly match. The authors were surprised by the marked increase of muscular damage indirectly assessed by serum creatine kinase (CK) in experienced players, which increased from about 80U/L at baseli...

This study was designed to assess the effect of strength and power training on throwing velocity and muscle strength in handball players according to their playing positions. Twenty-two male handball players were assigned to either an experimental group (n=11) or a control group (n=11) (age: 22.1 ± 3.0 years). They were asked to complete (i) the ball throwing velocity test and (ii) the one-repe...

The teaching and learning of games and sport-based activities has historically been the dominant form of the physical education curricula. With an interest in providing to students meaningful and culturally situated sporting experiences, Sport Education is probably the most implemented and researched pedagogical model worldwide. However, although there is considerable evidence that the model as...

The research on situation-related efficiency or performance was conducted on a sample of 60 handball matches (i.e. 120 records of activities performed exclusively during attack). Twenty-four different national teams were divided into four preliminary groups of six teams. The aim of this research was to analyse the factors of situational efficiency in handball, as in the following: (1) differenc...

1 Center of Research in Sport, University Miguel Hernández of Elche, Spain. 2 Center of Operations Research, University Miguel Hernández of Elche, Spain. . Authors submitted their contribution of the article to the editorial board. Accepted for printing in Journal of Human Kinetics vol. 35/2013 on March 2013. Game Performance Versus Competitive Performance in the World Championship of Handball ...

The objectives of the present study were: (i) to compare beach handball game-related statistics by match outcome (winning and losing teams), (ii) identify characteristics that discriminate performances in match. 72 women’s matches played VIII Women’s Beach Handball World Championship (2018) were analysed. taken from official Web page. A validation data showed their reliability be very good (the...

The research was conducted with the aim to establish the structure and the differences of morphological features and personality traits between different age groups of female cadet handball players grouped by their playing quality and playing positions. Further on, the research was done on 70 handball players aged 15, 31 on average, who were grouped according to their positions on goalkeepers, ...