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Srdcová frekvencia v odozve na herné zaťaženie v basketbale žien
Heart Rate Response to Game Load in Women’s Basketball

Author(s): Tomáš Vencúrik
Subject(s): Health and medicine and law, Sports Studies
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: intensity of load; maximum heart rate; basketball game;

Summary/Abstract: The study compares intensity of game load among individual players’ positions and between first and second half. Ten female basketball players in senior category participated in this study. Four intensity zones were determined based on maximal heart rate (HRmax). Telemetric device Suunto Team Pack was used for monitoring the heart rate (HR) during the games. The mean HR during the games reached 88.1±3.9% of HRmax of total time. When we compared players’ positions in individual intensity zones we did not record statistical (p>0.05) nor practical significance and neither in % of HRmax (87.4±3.6 vs. 87.8±4.6 vs. 88.8±3.5; point guard vs. forward vs. center). Moreover, when we compared the 1st and the 2nd half in individual zones and in % of HRmax (87.7±4.1 vs. 88.5±3.7) we also did not record any statistical significance (p>0.05) and effect size coefficient shows small effect. Players spent 76.3% of total time with HR grater than 85% of HRmax. The results indicate high physiological demands on female basketball players during the games without taking into consideration the player’s position.

  • Issue Year: 8/2014
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 29-35
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Slovak