Biological Perspectives in the Preparation of Basketball Students

Abstract

Today’s basketball involves superior manifestation of speed capacity, which implies consistent physical effort doubled by corresponding psychological effort. Therefore, besides the means of manifestation of general and specific speed, resistance and coordination in carrying actions, articular mobility and muscular fitness, and force in the context of these means, the necessity of developing ‘ball sensing’ is required, which secures catching and passing the ball, as well as the precision of finalizing actions. Today, general and specific physical preparation in the context of basketball training has a different distribution throughout preparation periods, corresponding to age intervals and competition levels.
Both general and specific physical preparation lay a foundation for obtaining athletic performance in basketball, being considered the starting point in approaching all elements of physical training. In order to obtain a more authentic analysis of the efficiency of implementing the physical preparation model for basketball players, applied within the didactic experiment, the main investigated area was the impact on the improvement of physical and morphofunctional development of the body as well as their level of specific and technical physical preparation. In the scientific endeavor, the obtained results were centralized within the two assessments (initial and final), charted and interpreted using the statistical mathematical method, more specifically the statistical indicators used in specialized literature: average, error and deviation, variability coefficient, and in order for the hypotheses to be confirmed the Student test has been calculated. Following the application of the experimental program, it has been noticed that the functional assay results both for the control group and experimental group participants are positive at the final testing, however the progress of the experimental group compared to the control group are relevant from a statistical-mathematical point of view, for a significance threshold of p<0.05 in four of the examinations (vital capacity, Lorenz resistance index, Ruffier test, Sargent test), and insignificant differences for BMI/Quetelet, demonstrating that the body’s accommodation to effort is perfectible.