Bozo D, Lleshi E. Comparison of Albanian female volleyball player with anthropometric, performance and haematological parameters. J. Hum. Sport Exerc. Vol. 7, No. Proc1, pp. S41-S50, 2012. The purpose of this study was to investigate and compare, on a set of basic anthropometric characteristics, specific volleyball performance indicators and a number of haematological parameters, between elite and nonelite female volleyball players in Albania. A total of 39 subjects were assesses and analyzed for three sets of indicators: 5 anthropometric characteristics (BH, BW, BMI, %BF, and %LBM), 3 performance tests (Jump with one hand, Jump with two hands, Height of the Arm) and 11 haematological markers (WBC, Lymph, Mid, Gran, Hgb, RBC, Hct, MCV, MCH, MCHC, ERC). The obtained results show that physical parameters such as body height, height of the arm, body weight, %BF display generally better values in elite teams but special abilities could be found and appreciated also in a local team, although with less better starting anthropometric and physical characteristics. The physical parameters are collinearly correlated to jump performance tests in both teams but with better values in the local team, different from the expectations. Haematological profiling does not show evident differences between the team groups; however these markers signal for eventual health or performance related alterations especially those related to anemia, which is a predictable and expectable health problem for this gender and age group. The above parameters, alone and in combination with each other, would allow coaches and athletes to identify and assess the physical and performance characteristics specific to the age groups for purposes of professional evaluation, selection, monitoring and continuous development at both individual and team level.

Aims: In volleyball the main achievement is winning the match so the tools and methods used during the training sessions are very important to achieve this goal. Purpose of the study is the identification of volleyball players in the development performance of i VO2max. Method: Test Astrand was used to evaluate VO2max in 75 female volleyball players in the average age of 17.1 years of the Albanian championship in two different periods _Pre and _Post mini phase of their training in the respective teams. Anthropometric measurements BH, BW, BMI and Astrand test were developed. Results; showed a positive value of progress from Pre-test to Post-test of volleyball players. There was a correlation between the maximum heart rate per minute and the maximum intake 021 / min, Maximum heart rate per minute and MaxV02 intake ml / kg / min in the post test, which showed a negative correlation, but the results are not significant at p≤0.05. The comparison of the test before and after did not mark a significant. Conclusion: It was noted that the training of volleyball players was aimed at strength. Strength training has made the only positive contribution to this type of improvement. Our study shows that the correlation between strength training and performance improvement of maximum VO2max results of laboratory values compared to the good part of them were significant. The impact of strength training can not be said to be a primary indicator but a secondary indicator in VO2max performance.

The study focuses on young volleyball players in Albania during the 12-week plyometric training in order to compare and evaluate the residence time in the air during the vertical jump performance through DJ40-60 test. Methods. Twenty young (male) volleyball players considered as the experimental group No = 10 and control group No. = 10 (age 17 ± 1) are participating in this study. Both volleyball groups were evaluated before and after 12 weeks. Only the experimental group developed 12 week of plyometric training with 2 sessions per week.The control group developed technical and tactical training with the ball. Besides anthropometric measurements they developed drop jump tests by jumping from the cube in height 40 cm and 60 cm Resulsts.The results showed a high correlation coefficient (r = 0,924) and statistically significant (sig.<0.05). Data obtained from two groups GRFP to show that the relationship between the contact time and the time air have also changes between the two tests DJ 40-60cm.Conclusions. The methodology used helps us to compare the high and poor performances that help coaches to program a more detailed plyometric training for the development of jumping skills in young volleyball players. Vertical jumping may be assessed not only by the height of its development but also by the phase of residence in the air.

Volleyball and Basketball women’s have different performances from each other due to their special specifics of the game. From the specificity of their training, there are differences in the physical qualities of individual and team sports performance, where one of the elements is vertical jumping. This study is concentrated on two teams: Women’s Volleyball Team (V) and Women’s Basketball Team (B) 15 members each, focusing on 30 subjects. Players were measured in physical parameters; Age (V-24: B-27), Body Height (V-180.4cm; B-173.4cm), Body Weight (V-70.37kg; B-63.88kg), BMI (V-21.67 percent; B-20.93 percent). The players performed the test DJ60cm in the platform Leonardo Ground Force Reaction Plate (GRFP) which expresses Force max (kN), Power max (w/kg), Time Contact (TCs), Air Time (TAs), TA/TCs. The results obtained by GRFP showed different team values of the two sports in the parameters of Fmax V65.19-B74.07n/kg, Pmax V31.26-B23.06w/kg, TCs V0.231-B0.198, TAs V0.436-B0.34 and TA/TCѕec V1.96ѕ-B1.71ѕec. Results revealed that V players jumped higher (p, 0.001) than B players. Finally, the Drop Jump60cm test has different performance between individual players, despite the fact that in the team average it turned out that Volleyball players is higher in this test. Drop Jump is the typical plyometric test. Furthermore, tests such as DJ can be a useful method for assessing differences and monitoring vertical jump training programs from collective sports.

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