Cardiovascular, muscular, and skeletal adaptations to recreational team handball training: a randomized controlled trial with young adult untrained men

Hornstrup, Therese; Løwenstein, F. T.; Larsen, Morten Andreas Dahl; Helge, Eva Wulff; Póvoas, Susana; Helge, Jørn Wulff; Nielsen, Johannes; Fristrup, Bjørn; Andersen, Jesper L.; Gliemann, Lasse; Nybo, Lars; Krustrup, Peter

doi:10.1007/s00421-018-4034-5

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“…This was addressed in a later study, showing that team handball training induced positive physical fitness and health‐related adaptations for adult men with previous experience with team handball . Besides, two studies conducted by our research group have already observed that small‐sided team handball led to positive effects on cardiovascular, musculo‐skeletal, and metabolic fitness in untrained young adult men and women . However, the group of young adult women did not show any effects on the cardiovascular outcomes, which may partly have been influenced by their overall superior baseline cardiovascular risk profile, since the intensity during training was high and the work produced was of intermittent nature.…”

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Cardiovascular and metabolic health effects of team handball training in overweight women: Impact of prior experience

Hornstrup

Póvoas

Helge

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Scandinavian Med Sci Sports

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Purpose:We tested the hypothesis that participation in small-sided team handball training could provide beneficial effects on cardiovascular and metabolic parameters in overweight premenopausal women with special focus on the importance of prior team handball experience. Methods: A 16-week RCT training intervention was conducted in overweight premenopausal women randomized into three groups: a team handball training group without prior experience (UN; n = 13), a team handball group with prior experience (EXP; n = 10), and an inactive control group (CON; n = 9). Both UN and EXP completed 1.6 ± 0.3 training sessions per week with average heart rates of 84 ± 5 and 85 ± 9% of maximal heart rate, respectively. Cardiovascular and metabolic parameters were assessed before and after the intervention. Results: Compared to CON, UN had significant increases in VO 2max (7 ± 4%) and intermittent endurance performance (26 ± 14%) as well as reduced total fat mass (4 ± 6%), total fat percentage (4 ± 5%), and android fat mass (7 ± 12%), respectively (all P < .05). Compared to UN and CON, EXP displayed increased left ventricular mass and left ventricular mass index (both P < .05) after the training period. There were no significant changes between any of the groups in muscle mass, blood lipids, resting heart rate, and blood pressure (all P > .05). Conclusion: Small-sided team handball training in overweight premenopausal women resulted in improvement of VO 2max and body composition for participants with minimal team handball experience, indicating that prior team handball experience is not a prerequisite for improving physiological parameters of importance for health. Furthermore, EXP displayed cardiac adaptations, including increased left ventricular mass and left ventricular mass index. K E Y W O R D S body composition, echocardiographic parameters, maximal oxygen uptake, premenopausal women, team handball training, team sports 282 | HORNSTRUP eT al. How to cite this article: Hornstrup T, Póvoas S, Helge JW, et al. Cardiovascular and metabolic health effects of team handball training in overweight women: Impact of prior experience. Scand J Med Sci Sports. 2020;30:281-294. https ://doi.

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Cardiovascular and metabolic health effects of team handball training in overweight women: Impact of prior experience

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Póvoas

Helge

et al. 2019

Scandinavian Med Sci Sports

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“…The popularity of this sport has increased in recent years, and currently, there are an estimated 25 million players worldwide [2], including male, female, senior, and youth players [3]. Despite the multiple beneficial effects derived from handball practice, such as improvements in cardiovascular, metabolic, muscular and psychosocial health [4][5][6], this team sport presents a high injury risk [7], mainly due to its high-intensity specific demands (i.e., rapid changes of direction, jumps with abrupt landings and repetitive throws, as well as frequent physical contact among players [8,9]). Likewise, low physical fitness, incorrect technique, lack of flexibility, and also inadequate rehabilitation treatment of injuries have been reported as risk factors related to the occurrence of injuries [10,11].…”

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Injury Profile of Male and Female Senior and Youth Handball Players: A Systematic Review

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Clemente

Beato

et al. 2020

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Handball is a team sport in which players are exposed to high physical conditioning requirements and several contacts and collisions, so they must face various musculoskeletal injuries throughout their career. The aim of this study was to summarize the characteristics of handball injuries both in training and in competition contexts, differentiating by gender and age. A systematic review was conducted and a total of 15 studies (33 cohorts) met the inclusion criteria. Higher injury incidence was reported during matches compared to training sessions in all groups (i.e., male and female senior and youth players), with male senior players presenting the greatest values. Lower extremities were more frequently injured, being contusions and sprains the most common type of injuries. Females reported more serious injuries than males, who presented a higher percentage of acute injuries caused by direct contact, while in female players these injuries were not caused by direct contact actions. Wings and backs presented the highest injury incidence; additionally, players registered higher match incidence during international championships compared to national leagues. Due to the differences in the injury profile of handball players, specific preventive strategies should be implemented for each group to optimize the injury prevention process.

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“…December 2015. The primary outcome variable of the overall study was VO 2peak , as described by Hornstrup and colleagues [24,25]. Sample size estimates were based on the expected standard deviations of changes in the main outcomes of VO 2peak and body-composition previously reported following recreational small-sided football training in untrained individuals [18].…”

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“…It has been suggested that the many intense actions during small-sided recreational football are the main cause for the observed positive adaptations in musculoskeletal function [10,[21][22][23]. Notably, recreational small-sided team handball match-play has shown similar patterns of intermittent movements and activity changes as reported in small-sided football play [21,[24][25][26]]. Yet, only few studies have investigated the physical adaptations to small-sided team handball training with no investigations into the potential effect of small-sided team handball training on musculoskeletal fitness.…”

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“…The average attendance rate was 1.8±0.3 training sessions per week (range: 1.1-2.8). Training intensity has been reported in the referred papers from the main study [24,25]. All THG training sessions were conducted at the University of Copenhagen using an indoor wooden floor team handball field (field size = 19 x 13.3 m) and consisted of a~15-min warm-up program, followed by four 10-min bouts of small-sided team handball match-play, separated by 3-min rest periods.…”

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Effects of small-sided recreational team handball training on mechanical muscle function, body composition and bone mineralization in untrained young adults—A randomized controlled trial

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Prolonged physical inactivity in young adults may lead to deficiencies in musculoskeletal fitness, and thus a need exists to develop physical activity and exercise programmes that are effective of increasing musculoskeletal fitness. The aim of this study, therefore, was to investigate the effects of small-sided team handball training on lower limb muscle strength, postural balance and body composition in young adults. Twenty-six men and twenty-eight women were stratified for peak oxygen uptake (VO2peak) and body fat percentage and randomly allocated to either 12 wks of small-sided recreational team handball training (THG: 14 men and 14 women, age 24.1±2.6 yrs (mean±SD), VO2peak 39.8±5.9 ml/kg/min and body fat percentage 32.7±8.7%) or serving as non-exercising controls (CON: 12 men and 14 women, age 24.8±3.1 yrs, VO2peak 39.7±5.0 ml/kg/min, body fat percentage 31.7±9.7%). THG trained on average 1.8 times/week for 12 wks. At 0 and 12 wks, lower limb muscle strength, rate of force development (RFD), vertical jump height and power, postural balance, body composition and muscle biopsies were assessed. No training effects were observed for maximal isokinetic or isometric knee extensor strength, maximal vertical jump height or take-off power, fibre type distribution or capillarization. Late phase (RFD) increased (+7.4%, p<0.05) and postural sway excursion length was improved after training (-9%, p<0.05) in THG with no difference from CON (p>0.05). Further, THG demonstrated a decrease in body fat percentage (-3.7%) accompanied by increases in whole-body fat free mass (FFM) (+2.2%), leg FFM (+2.5%), total bone mineral content (BMC) (+1.1%), leg BMC (+1.2%), total hip bone mineral density (+1.6%) and hip T-score (+50%) which differed from CON (all p<0.05). In conclusion, recreational small-sided team handball training appears to effectively improve rapid force capacity, postural balance, lean and fat body mass and bone health in previously untrained young adults. The study was registered at ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT04247724). ClinicalTrials.gov ID number: NCT04247724

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Cardiovascular, muscular, and skeletal adaptations to recreational team handball training: a randomized controlled trial with young adult untrained men

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Cardiovascular and metabolic health effects of team handball training in overweight women: Impact of prior experience

Cardiovascular and metabolic health effects of team handball training in overweight women: Impact of prior experience

Injury Profile of Male and Female Senior and Youth Handball Players: A Systematic Review

Effects of small-sided recreational team handball training on mechanical muscle function, body composition and bone mineralization in untrained young adults—A randomized controlled trial

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