USING ACTIVE AND PASSIVE BREAKS DURING HANDBALL GAMES ACCORDING TO SPECIALISTS

Abstract

In most team sports games, only a few of the players enter the starting line of the match, and the others are bound by regulation to sit on the bench and remain inactive. The first objective of our research was to obtain an informed opinion from the coaches in Romania regarding the role of passive and active breaks in the possible evolution of reserve players in the match. In addition, we wanted to know whether specialists use programs to preserve the optimal capacity for effort during sports activities. As a research tool, we used the opinion questionnaire with 24 respondents. We analysed the data for normality and then expressed it by mean, minimum and maximum values. We appreciated the degree of correlation (rho) between the studied parameters by calculating the Spearman correlation coefficient. A value of the coefficient of statistical significance p <0,05 was considered significant. At the same time, we determined the internal consistency of the research tools by using the Alfa Cronbach coefficient for the Likert scale applied to our questionnaire. We have analysed the relationship between the „effects of passive” breaks and „opportunity of using active” breaks to see if coaches' opinion on the effects of passive breaks is correlated with their appreciation of the appropriateness of using active breaks. The conclusion of our study is that we cannot appreciate that the opinion of Romanian coaches on the effects of passive breaks on the players on the sidelines is consistent with the actual use of some pause programs active, focused on maintaining the optimal functioning capacity of the body of the player.