Short-term effects of combined training on the performance of the Brazilian women’s basketball team

Abstract

Competitions are considered of paramount importance for high-performancesports because they determine the entire orientation of the training process. When analyzing the calendar of the International Basketball Federation, it can be observed that international competitions occur in short periods of time. In this sense, the aim of this study was to verify the effects of the application of combined training in the short-term preparation period on the speed of athletes of the Brazilian women’s basketball team. Thirteen athletes participated in this study, who took part of the preparation for the 2015 Pan American Games. Athletes were submitted to anthropometric measures and biomotor capacity evaluation at cyclic speed -20m run, and acyclic speed - T test at the beginning (M0) and end of a 27 - day preparation period (M1). Considering the period available for training, the total duration percentage was:technical / tactical 73.7%, strength and conditioning: 5.7%, preventive: 10.5% and general and special warm up: 10.1%. After data collection, the Shapiro-Wilk test was used to verify normality and then, the Student’s T test was also applied. The main results indicate that the best time to evaluate cyclic speed (M0 and M1, respectively) was 3.34 ± 0.22s and 3.39 ± 0.21s and acyclic speed (M0 and M1, respectively), 9.30 ± 0.49s and 9.52 ± 0.57s.The results of the current study suggest that short-term intervention was not efficient to improve the cyclic and acyclic speed of female basketball athletes.

Effect of a 6-Week Preseason Training Protocol on Physiological and Muscle Damage Markers in High-Level Female and Male Basketball Players

“…More specifically, vertical jumping ability was significantly improved after 3 (8.08%), 8 (~8.77%) and 10 weeks (7-12.2%) of preseason plyometric and block periodization training in female and male elite basketball athletes [30][31][32]. Sprint performance was also significantly improved after 3 (1.55%), 4 (1.49%) and 6 (~1.25-1.65%) weeks of preseason training in female and male elite basketball athletes, through 10 and 20 m sprinting tests [30,31,33]. Some other studies demonstrated a significant effect of plyometric training on explosiveness through 5 m sprinting tests on young basketball players (~4%) [12,34].…”

Effect of Pre-Season Training on Physiological and Biochemical Indices in Basketball Players—A Systematic Review

“…In addition, the study of Borin et al, 2019 [32] demonstrated a significant decrease in agility after a typical pre-season training protocol (−2.3%). Finally, a possible explanation for the three studies that showed a significant decrease or did not return any significant outcomes in agility [15,30,32], might be the short duration of the pre-season period that was used (6, 4, and 4 weeks, respectively), compared to the other three studies that used longer pre-season training protocols (8, 8, and 12 weeks) (Table 3).…”

“…The only study that evidenced significant improvements in speed ability (1.42 s) used a plyometric training program [26]. Additionally, in two other studies, a four-week pre-season training program was used, but the results suggest that a short-term training protocol was not efficient to improve the speed of female basketball athletes [17,32]; compared to the study of Asadi et al, 2017, [26] which used a different training modality and a longer training period of eight weeks. In two further studies [28,33] with the same RSA training protocol, the researchers tried to evaluate RSA, also comparing it with a typical pre-season training protocol [28], and found that the groups that were practicing with repeated sprint training during the pre-season period, showed a significant increase in RSA (0.2 s).…”