Effects of plyometric exercises on selected motor abilities of university level female basketball players

Abstract

Today there is not a single sport in the world at the competitive level for which resistance training in some or the other form is not used as conditioning exercises. Plyometric training is an excellent method of developing body power and it is proved as a very effective method for improving explosive strength. The purpose of the study was to fi nd out the effects of plyometric exercises on selected motor abilities of university level female basketball players. The subjects, 20 female basketball players of Lakshmibai National Institute of Physical Education, Gwalior, were randomly divided in two groups, that is, experimental and control group. The age of subjects varied between 18 and 22 years. The criterion measures vertical jump, 20-m dash, movement speed, fl exibility and agility in the beginning and at the end of the experimental period of 6 weeks for both the groups. In order to study the effect of plyometric exercises on selected motor abilities, the analysis of co-variance is used at the 0.05 level of signifi cance. It was concluded that the plyometric training is an effective means for improving the following variables: agility, fl exibility vertical jump and movement speed. On the other hand, plyometric training is not an effective means for improving the variable, that is, speed of movement (20-m dash). There was no significant improvement in case of control group. on 12 May 2018 by guest. Protected by copyright.

Plyometric Training and Sprint Abilities of Young Basketball Players

“…Draganović & Marković (2011); Asadi & Arazi (2012); and Asadi (2013) found that a 6-week plyometric training (2 times per week) for a basketball, junior and senior age sample leads to a significant improvement in the sprint speed of the S20m. Similar results were achieved (Benis, Rossi, Russo, & La Torre, 2015;Chaudhary & Jhajharia, 2010) for a sample of basketball players, that 8-week plyometric training (2 times per week) led to a significant improvement in 20m sprint results. Also, plyometric training in combination with exercises leads to a significant improvement in the speed of the sprint of young basketball players.…”

Research Review of the Development of the Explosive Strength in Basketball // Pregled istraživanja razvoja eksplozivne snage u košarci

“…The smallest number of respondents was in the research Adorable Caparin & Abba (2011) and it amounted to nine participants and the biggest was in the research Bavli (2012) with 91 respondents. In nine of the researches, the respondents were female basketball players (Chang, Hsu, Chen & Lin, 2005;Chaudhary & Jhajharia, 2010 Torre, 2015; Khazai & Hematfar, 2015), kod dva istraži-vanja su bili i muškog i ženskog pola (Bavli, 2012a;Ramachandran & Pradhan, 2014), a kod svih ostalih istraživanja su bili muškog pola. Najmlađi uzorak ispitanika bio je u istraživanju Khazai & Hematfar (2015) i iznosio je od 11 do 12 godina, a najstariji u istraživanju Morsal at al.…”

“…Najmanji broj ispitanika bio je u istraživanju Adorable Caparino & Abbu (2011) i iznosio je devet ispitanika, a najveći u istraživanju Bavli (2012)a sa 91. ispitanikom. Kod devet istraživanja ispitanici su bili ženskog pola -košarkašice (Chang, Hsu, Chen & Lin, 2005;Chaudhary & Jhajharia, 2010;Adibpour, Bakht & Behpour, 2012;Komal & Singh, 2013;Zarić, 2014; Attene at al., 2014; McCormick at al., 2015; Benis, Rossi, Russo & La Lesiecki, 2006), are of great importance for success in sports such as basketball (Nedeljković, 2004;Bobbert, 1990), and are manifested in situations such as jump shot and jump towards the ball (Manojlovic & Erčulj, 2013). In men's professional basketball a player has to jump 46 ± 12 times (Castagna, Chaouachi, Rampinini, Chamari & Impellizzeri, 2009), and some authors claim that basketball in the whole match (40min games) takes up to 100 different jumps (Manojlović & Erčulj, 2013).…”

“…Rezultati iz Tabele 1. pokazuju da osim kod košar-kaša, pliometrijski trening u trajanju između šest i 12 nedelja dovodi do razvoja eksplozivne snage i kod košarkašica (Chang, Hsu, Chen & Lin, 2005;Chaudhary & Jhajharia, 2010;Bavli, 2012a;Komal & Singh, 2013;Attene at al., 2014;Benis, Rossi, Russo & La Torre, 2015;McCormick at al., 2015).…”