Vertical Jump and Relative Strength are Strongly Associated with Change of Direction in Professional Male Basketball Players

Authors

  • Stefano Benitez Flores Department of Physical Education and Health, Higher Institute of Physical Education, University of the Republic, Montevideo, Uruguay
  • Eduardo Lusa Cadore Exercise Research Laboratory, School of Physical Education, Physiotherapy and Dance, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
  • Emilija Stojanović Faculty of Medical Sciences, Department of Physiology, University of Kragujevac, Kragujevac, Serbia
  • Anne Delextrat Department of Sport and Health Sciences and Social Work, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK
  • Julio Calleja-González Department of Physical Education and Sports, Faculty of Education and Sport, University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.47206/ijsc.v4i1.279

Keywords:

Team sports, Field tesing, Muscular power, Agility, Anaerobic performance, Elite athletes

Abstract

Purpose: The aim of this study was to examine the predictors of change of direction (COD) in highly trained/national level male basketball players using field assessments.

Methods: Eight professional male basketball players (age: 24.0 ± 5.5 years; body mass index (BMI): 24.1 ± 1.6 kg m-2) volunteered for participation in this study. All the evaluations were carried out during 2 sessions as follows: First day_1) body composition, 2) unilateral and bilateral squat jump (SJ) and countermovement (CMJ), and 3) Yo-Yo intermittent recovery test level 1 (Yo-Yo IR1); Second day_1) COD performance, and 2) one repetition maximum (1RM) hang clean (HC) and bench press (BP). A linear regression was performed to evaluate the determinants of COD amongst all other measured variables. Furthermore, we applied Pearson correlation coefficient and in the case of non-normally distributed variables, Spearman’s correlation coefficient for the selected variables.

Results: The linear regression indicated that only SJ height was a significant determinant of COD (R2 = 58.8%, p = 0.016). Significant correlations were identified between COD test and SJ (r = -0.75, p = 0.034; very large), and relative HC 1 RM (r = -0.74, p = 0.038; very large).

Conclusions: The associations found between COD performance and physical parameters should be considered when developing athletic conditioning programs. Especially, the vertical jump height could explain the greatest variability in COD performance..

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Published

2024-02-02

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Vol. 4 No. 1 (2024): Vol 4 No 1 (2024): International Journal of Strength and Conditioning

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Benitez Flores, Stefano, Eduardo Lusa Cadore, Emilija Stojanović, Anne Delextrat, and Julio Calleja-González. 2024. “Vertical Jump and Relative Strength Are Strongly Associated With Change of Direction in Professional Male Basketball Players”. International Journal of Strength and Conditioning 4 (1). https://doi.org/10.47206/ijsc.v4i1.279.