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The aim of this study was to analyze heart rate (HR) response to Czech female basketball matches played at a different competitive level. Additionally, the influence of a game position was evaluated. Heart rate (HR) was monitored in eight official matches in elite: first league (N=8, age= 22,7 ± 1,9 years) and national (non-elite: second league) (N=9, age= 24,1 ± 2,3 years) female players. The average HR in matches was 91.9 ± 5.3 % of HR max at elite level and 88.8 % ± 4.2 % of HR max at national level (P < .001; d = 0.58). This difference was more pronounced in forwards (P < .001, d = 1.2) than centers (P < .001, d = 0.41) and guards (P < .001, d = 0.18). In conclusion, these results allow improving game understanding and helping coaches to prescribe accurate practice sessions based on individual requirements.

Monitoring Internal Load in Women’s Basketball via Subjective and Device-Based Methods: A Systematic Review

“…With regard to the devices, only four studies provided complete information on the manufacturer, sampling frequency, and body placement (wrist, chest, or upper body) [4,34,35,37]. These sensors were used during practice sessions [4,20,23,28,34,44,48,50,58,60], games [17,19,31,33,35,37,45,46,52,55,61,62], or both events [24,26,30,32,35,47,49,53,57]. Heart rate was the most commonly used method to assess physiological response, although a variety of metrics were obtained and used to measure and evaluate the internal load, including the average HR (HR Avg ), maximum HR (HR Max ), minimum HR, percent of maximum HR (%HR Max ), percent of average HR (%HR Avg ), total time, or percentage of time spent in different HR zones (2-8 zones), TRIMP B , and SHRZ.…”

“…Additionally, seven studies investigated the internal load in elite players during training [4,18,27,[34][35][36] and six studies investigated the internal load in elite players during competition [26,31,[35][36][37][38]. Among the professional players, 13 publications monitored the physiological response, with 7 studies monitoring it during practice [28,[39][40][41][42][43][44] and 7 monitoring it during competition [32,39,41,42,[45][46][47]. Finally, 12 studies investigated amateur players, with 5 studies monitoring them during practice [48][49][50][51] and 10 studies monitoring them during competition [49,[51][52][53][54][55][56].…”

“…Nineteen articles investigated the physiological response of female basketball players only during practice [4,16,20,21,23,25,28,34,[39][40][41]43,44,48,50,[57][58][59][60], while fourteen publications examined internal load only during competition [17,22,31,[33][34][35]37,45,46,52,54,55,61,62] and eleven studies analyzed internal load in both events [24,26,27,29,32,35,36,47,51,53,56]. Among the included studies, 24 reported the type of tasks [4,16,[20][21][22]…”

“…Of the studies that mentioned specific tasks, two publications simulated competition demands during training [24,53]. Regarding competition monitoring, a total of 28 publications recorded data in the 5v5 format [17][18][19]22,24,26,27,[29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38]42,[45][46][47]49,[51][52][53][54][55][56]61,62], while only 3 studies measured the competition in the 3v3 format [31,37,62], where all were collected during official competition. Among all studies investigating the 5v5 format, there was one friendly match [26].…”