ArticleFrontiers in psychology2021
The Relationship Between Reactive Agility and Change of Direction Speed in Professional Female Basketball and Handball Players.
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- Sex-specific relationship patterns between body morphology and maturity status with change of direction and agility in elite adolescent volleyball players.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Effects of variable intensity and constant intensity flywheel resistance training programs on specific soccer players' performance.Frontiers in physiology · 2024Article
- Hand Selection in Dribbling Phases: An Analysis of Non-Dominant Hand Usage and Dribble Change in Basketball.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- The Impact of Peripheral Vision on Manual Reaction Time Using Fitlight Technology for Handball, Basketball and Volleyball Players.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Are change of direction speed and agility different abilities from time and coordinative perspectives?PloS one · 2023Article
- The Functional Form of the Relationship between Body Height, Body Mass Index and Change of Direction Speed, Agility in Elite Female Basketball and Handball Players.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- The Impact of Implementing an Exergame Program on the Level of Reaction Time Optimization in Handball, Volleyball, and Basketball Players.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
Assessing the physical ability of players to perform change of direction and the cognitive and motor abilities revealed in reactive agility (RA) is necessary to understand the physical requirements and capabilities of professional players in handball and basketball. The main aim of this study was to determine the differences between professional female basketball and handball players in terms of anthropometric features, change of direction speed (CODS), and the RA task. Moreover, the relationships among anthropometric features, agility, and parameters of perception were determined. Two scenarios of the Five-Time Shuttle Run to Gates test (planned and unplanned) were used to evaluate the CODS and RA. The response time (RT) was also measured in the unplanned scenario. Additionally, the index of reactivity (REAC-INDEX) was specified as the difference between the RA test result and the measurement of CODS. There was a significant difference found in terms of body height, with basketball players being taller than handball players (
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