Design and interpretation of anthropometric and fitness testing of basketball players

EJ Drinkwater, DB Pyne, MJ McKenna - Sports medicine, 2008 - Springer
The volume of literature on fitness testing in court sports such as basketball is considerably
less than for field sports or individual sports such as running and cycling. Team sport …

Tests for the assessment of sport-specific performance in Olympic combat sports: A systematic review with practical recommendations

H Chaabene, Y Negra, R Bouguezzi… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
The regular monitoring of physical fitness and sport-specific performance is important in elite
sports to increase the likelihood of success in competition. This study aimed to …

Making meaningful inferences about magnitudes

AM Batterham, WG Hopkins - … journal of sports …, 2006 - journals.humankinetics.com
A study of a sample provides only an estimate of the true (population) value of an outcome
statistic. A report of the study therefore usually includes an inference about the true value …

Speed, change of direction speed, and reactive agility of rugby league players

TJ Gabbett, JN Kelly, JM Sheppard - The Journal of Strength & …, 2008 - journals.lww.com
While studies have investigated speed and change of direction speed in rugby league
players, no study has investigated the reactive agility of these athletes. In addition, the …

Time-motion analysis of small-sided training games and competition in elite women soccer players

TJ Gabbett, MJ Mulvey - The Journal of Strength & Conditioning …, 2008 - journals.lww.com
We investigated the movement patterns of small-sided training games and compared these
movement patterns with domestic, national, and international standard competition in elite …

An analysis of playing positions in elite men's volleyball: considerations for competition demands and physiologic characteristics

JM Sheppard, TJ Gabbett… - The Journal of Strength & …, 2009 - journals.lww.com
Abstract Sheppard, JM Gabbett, TJ, and Reeberg Stanganelli, LC. An analysis of playing
positions in elite men's volleyball: considerations for competition demands and physiologic …

Dispelling the myth that habitual caffeine consumption influences the performance response to acute caffeine supplementation

L de Souza Gonçalves… - Journal of applied …, 2017 - journals.physiology.org
This study investigates the influence of habitual caffeine intake on aerobic exercise-
performance responses to acute caffeine supplementation. A double-blind, crossover …

Placebo in sports nutrition: a proof‐of‐principle study involving caffeine supplementation

B Saunders, LF de Oliveira, RP da Silva… - … Journal of Medicine …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
We investigated the effects of supplement identification on exercise performance with
caffeine supplementation. Forty‐two trained cyclists (age 37±8 years, body mass [BM] …

The effect of recovery strategies on physical performance and cumulative fatigue in competitive basketball

PG Montgomery, DB Pyne, WG Hopkins… - Journal of sports …, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
To evaluate the effectiveness of recovery strategies on physical performance during a 3-day
tournament style basketball competition, 29 male players (mean age 19.1 years, s= 2.1; …

Relationships between training load, injury, and fitness in sub-elite collision sport athletes

TJ Gabbett, N Domrow - Journal of sports sciences, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
The purpose of this study was to develop statistical models that estimate the influence of
training load on training injury and physical fitness in collision sport athletes. The incidence …