title: A comparison of heart rate response and frequencies of technical actions between half-court and full-court 3-a-side games in high school female basketball players.
abstract: The purpose of this study was to compare heart rate (HR) response and frequency of technical actions between half-court and full-court 3-a-side games in female high school basketball players. Twelve young female basketball players (age 15.5 ± 0.5 years; height 165.1 ± 5.7 cm; body mass 57.3 ± 7.2 kg; training age 4.2 ± 0.7 years; HRmax 202.9 ± 5.6 b·min(-1)) participated in this study voluntarily. On the first day, anthropometric measurements (height and body mass) were taken for each player; this was followed by the Yo-Yo intermittent recovery test (YIRT) level 1 for the subjects. Then, half-court and full-court 3-a-side games were organized in random order at 2-day intervals. The HRmax for each player was determined during the YIRT, after which the HR was measured during the 3-a-side games. In addition, the frequencies of different categories of technical actions were counted manually during the 3-a-side games. A paired t-test was calculated for each dependent variable, including HR, percentage of maximum HR (%HRmax), and the frequencies of different technical actions to compare half-court and full-court 3-a-side games. The study results indicate that the full-court 3-a-side games produced significantly higher responses than the half-court 3-a-side games in terms of HR and %HRmax (p < 0.05), whereas the half-court games resulted in significantly higher frequencies of technical actions (p < 0.05). The results of this study suggest that, if coaches want to achieve greater HR responses, coaches of female high school basketball players should organize full-court 3-a-side games, whereas coaches who want to focus on technical actions should arrange half-court 3-a-side games.
authors.affiliation: Pamukkale University Basketball Team, Denizli, Turkey.
authors.forename: Halil
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Atlı
authors.forename: Yusuf
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Köklü
authors.forename: Utku
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Alemdaroğlu
authors.forename: Fatma Ünver
authors.initials: FÜ
authors.lastname: Koçak
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001490:Basketball / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006339:Heart Rate; D006801:Humans; D010809:Physical Fitness / Q000502:physiology*; D012146:Rest / Q000502:physiology; D012420:Running / Q000502:physiology; D018709:Statistics, Nonparametric