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Changes in Fitness During 4 Years of Intercollegiate Basketball

1993; Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; Volume: 7; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1519/1533-4287(1993)007 2.3.co;2

1533-4287

Gary R. Hunter, James C. Hilyer, Margaret A. Forster,

Sports injuries and prevention

ABSTRACT It is important for the coach, athlete, and researcher to be aware of the physiological and performance changes that occur during a college basketball career. The purpose of this investigation was twofold: (a) report measures of body composition, aerobic fitness, flexibility, power, vertical jumping ability, and strength in freshman basketball players; and (b) report changes in these fitness variables between freshman/sophomore, sophomore/junior, and junior/senior years. Preseason measures for body weight, percent fat, maximum oxygen uptake (JOURNAL/jscr/04.02/00124278-199302000-00005/ENTITY_OV0312/v/2017-07-20T235136Z/r/image-pngO2 max), one-repetition maximum (1-RM) bench press and squat, sit-and-reach flexibility, vertical jump, and peak and average power during vertical jump are reported. The basketball players were lean (8.3% fat) and maintained low percent fat despite a mean 7.4-kg increase in body weight between freshman and senior years. Compared to professional and college basketball players, the freshmen had relatively high JOURNAL/jscr/04.02/00124278-199302000-00005/ENTITY_OV0312/v/2017-07-20T235136Z/r/image-pngO2 max (over 50 ml · kg–1 · min–1) and maintained this value across their college careers. No significant change was observed in sit-and-reach flexibility, but vertical jump increased 4.9 cm between the freshman and senior years. Vertical jump peak power output increased 570 W while average power output increased 274 W. Finally, bench press and squat 1-RM values both increased a substantial 22 and 44.7 kg, respectively. This information should be of value to coaches for both developing realistic training objectives and for evaluating progress of athletes.