Effectiveness of Fitness Testing for Assessment of Male Basketball Athletes- A Cross-sectional Study
Introduction: Basketball players should have physical characteristics which include sports-specific skills and demands. Activities including sprinting, and jumping require abilities with speed, power, strength, and agility. These have to be evaluated using fitness tests which help in having a good i...
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| description | Introduction: Basketball players should have physical characteristics which include sports-specific skills and demands. Activities including sprinting, and jumping require abilities with speed, power, strength, and agility. These have to be evaluated using fitness tests which help in having a good impact on the game. Assessment of their performance will be helpful for designing and monitoring the efficacy of basketball athletes’ training regimes.
Aim: To assess the body composition and fitness tests specific to cardio-respiratory fitness, upper and lower limb strength, endurance, flexibility and agility in 20-29 years male basketball players.
Materials and Methods: It was an observational cross-sectional study which was conducted on 30 male basketball players in Dr. DY Patil Medical College, Pune, from June 2017 to Dec 2017. Participants were assessed for specific fitness tests conducted in two days. Agility, upper extremity strength, lower extremity endurance including flexibility, was tested on the first day, followed by body composition, cardio-respiratory fitness, upper extremity endurance and lower extremity strength on another day.
Results: The mean age of the male basketball players was 21.8 years. The mean Body Mass Index (BMI) was 22.53 Kg/m2. It showed a poor (35.58±4.80) cardio-respiratory fitness using the Beep Test. For the upper limb, there was poor flexibility (13.01±3.45). However, the lower limb endurance (60.33±19.80) and agility (12.08±0.66) showed excellent results.
Conclusion: The study concluded that lower extremity fitness was better than upper extremity in male basketball players. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c5f74b3d440a429bbbfb2059e16f02682023-04-06T10:22:01ZengJCDR Research and Publications Private LimitedJournal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research2249-782X0973-709X2023-03-01173YC17YC2110.7860/JCDR/2023/58020.17677Effectiveness of Fitness Testing for Assessment of Male Basketball Athletes- A Cross-sectional StudyAmita Aggarwal0Chaitanyaa Wani1Yash Jaiswal2Associate Professor, Department of Physiotherapy, Dr. D.Y. Patil College of Physiotherapy, Pune, Maharashtra, India.Assistant Professor, Department of Physiotherapy, Dr. D.Y. Patil College of Physiotherapy, Pune, Maharashtra, India.Physiotherapist, Department of Physiotherapy, Dr. D.Y. Patil College of Physiotherapy, Pune, Maharashtra, India.Introduction: Basketball players should have physical characteristics which include sports-specific skills and demands. Activities including sprinting, and jumping require abilities with speed, power, strength, and agility. These have to be evaluated using fitness tests which help in having a good impact on the game. Assessment of their performance will be helpful for designing and monitoring the efficacy of basketball athletes’ training regimes. Aim: To assess the body composition and fitness tests specific to cardio-respiratory fitness, upper and lower limb strength, endurance, flexibility and agility in 20-29 years male basketball players. Materials and Methods: It was an observational cross-sectional study which was conducted on 30 male basketball players in Dr. DY Patil Medical College, Pune, from June 2017 to Dec 2017. Participants were assessed for specific fitness tests conducted in two days. Agility, upper extremity strength, lower extremity endurance including flexibility, was tested on the first day, followed by body composition, cardio-respiratory fitness, upper extremity endurance and lower extremity strength on another day. Results: The mean age of the male basketball players was 21.8 years. The mean Body Mass Index (BMI) was 22.53 Kg/m2. It showed a poor (35.58±4.80) cardio-respiratory fitness using the Beep Test. For the upper limb, there was poor flexibility (13.01±3.45). However, the lower limb endurance (60.33±19.80) and agility (12.08±0.66) showed excellent results. Conclusion: The study concluded that lower extremity fitness was better than upper extremity in male basketball players.https://www.jcdr.net/articles/PDF/17677/58020_CE[Ra1]_F(SS)_PF1(RL_SS)_PFA(RL_SS)_PN(KM).pdfagilitybody compositionflexibilitymuscular endurancemuscular strength |
| spellingShingle | Amita Aggarwal Chaitanyaa Wani Yash Jaiswal Effectiveness of Fitness Testing for Assessment of Male Basketball Athletes- A Cross-sectional Study Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research agility body composition flexibility muscular endurance muscular strength |
| title | Effectiveness of Fitness Testing for Assessment of Male Basketball Athletes- A Cross-sectional Study |
| title_full | Effectiveness of Fitness Testing for Assessment of Male Basketball Athletes- A Cross-sectional Study |
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| title_sort | effectiveness of fitness testing for assessment of male basketball athletes a cross sectional study |
| topic | agility body composition flexibility muscular endurance muscular strength |
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