- Title
- Gender-specific activity demands experienced during semiprofessional basketball game play
- Creator
- Scanlan, Aaron T.; Dascombe, Ben J.; Kidcaff, Andrew P.; Peucker, Jessica L.; Dalbo, Vincent J.
- Relation
- International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance Vol. 10, Issue 5, p. 618-625
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/ijspp.2014-0407
- Publisher
- Human Kinetics
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2015
- Description
- Purpose: To compare game activity demands between female and male semiprofessional basketball players. Methods: Female (n = 12) and male (n = 12) semiprofessional basketball players were monitored across 3 competitive games. Time–motion-analysis procedures quantified player activity into predefined movement categories across backcourt (BC) and frontcourt (FC) positions. Activity frequencies, durations, and distances were calculated relative to live playing time (min). Work:rest ratios were also calculated using the video data. Game activity was compared between genders for each playing position and all players. Results: Female players performed at greater running work-rates than male players (45.7 ± 1.4 vs. 42.1 ± 1.7 m/min, P = .05), while male players performed more dribbling than female players (2.5 ± 0.3 vs. 3.0 ± 0.2 s/min; 8.4 ± 0.3 vs. 9.7 ± 0.7 m/min, P = .05). Positional analyses revealed that female BC players performed more low-intensity shuffling (P = .04) and jumping (P = .05), as well as longer (P = .04) jogging durations, than male BC players. Female FC players executed more upper-body activity (P = .03) and larger work:rest ratios (P < .001) than male FC players. No significant gender differences were observed in the overall intermittent demands, distance traveled, high-intensity shuffling activity, and sprinting requirements during game play. Conclusions: These findings indicate that gender-specific running and dribbling differences might exist in semiprofessional basketball. Furthermore, position-specific variations between female and male basketball players should be considered. These data may prove useful in the development of gender-specific conditioning plans relative to playing position in basketball.
- Subject
- motion analysis; team sport; training; female; intermittent
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1331794
- Identifier
- uon:26708
- Identifier
- ISSN:1555-0265
- Language
- eng
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