Insights into Basketball Player Conditioning: Analyzing Pre-season Training's Impact on Physiological and Biochemical Indices- A Systematic Review | Chapter 3 | Contemporary Perspective on Science, Technology and Research Vol. 4

Basketball is one of the most popular team sports in the world, and many sport scientists are intensely studying many different aspects and factors that affect or explain players’ performance in this specific sport. The pre-season period in basketball includes all the physiological attributes that the players need to work on and develop, in order to sustain a full season workload. The monitoring of the effectiveness of pre-season training is based on a variety of biochemical and physiological indices; however, it is still unclear how pre-season training affects those markers. Therefore, this study aimed to analyze the effects of pre-season training on biochemical and physiological markers. A search was performed in five large scientific databases (Pubmed (Medline), Scopus, Science-Direct, Sport- Discus (EBSCO), Semantic Scholar) and produced 7081 results, which after removing duplicates and applying inclusion and exclusion criteria, resulted in 28 published scientific articles being included in this review. The most important findings suggested that the majority of the studies used a 6- or an 8-week pre-season training protocol, because these protocols have shown significant positive effects over the years. In addition, the plyometric training protocols that were used by many studies have been found to be beneficial for basketball athletes for many physiological parameters. Furthermore, the evaluation of biochemical markers can be a very useful tool in monitoring and managing fatigue, which is an essential part of modifying the training process, in order to maximize performance. Conclusively, our research tried to help the community around the sport of basketball, by demonstrating some new perspectives and providing some scientific insights about basketball player conditioning.

Author(s) Details:

Dimitrios Mexis,
School of Physical Education and Sport Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 17237 Athens, Greece.

Tzortzis Nomikos,
Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, School of Health Sciences and Education, Harokopio University, 17676 Athens, Greece.

Nikolaos Kostopoulos,
School of Physical Education and Sport Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 17237 Athens, Greece.

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