Abstract
This study was carried out in order to compare certain physical fitness parameters of young basketball and football players. Basketball players, who are playing in U16 league (n=12), and football players playing in U17 league (n=10) participated in the study voluntarily. Groups were separated into two as the basketball group (BG) and the football group (FG). BG has a body weight mean of 74.13±7.26 kg, a height mean of 187.50±7.03 cm, and an age mean of 16. FG has a body weight mean of 68.0±7.95 kg, a height mean of 178.4±5.31 cm, and an age mean of 17. Participants were applied performance tests, which are composed of sit and reach test, leg strength, hand grip strength, flexibility, 20 m sprint, and flamingo balance test among physical fitness parameters. Data obtained were analysed using SPSS 19.0 package program, and Mann Whitney U test was used to compare two groups. While there was no meaningful difference between strength and flexibility values (p>0.05), a meaningful difference occurred in favour of FG in 20 m speed test (p<0.05). As a result, the difference that occurred in speed only makes us think that height and body weight in basketball players can impact speed and agility negatively compared to football players.
Highlights
Physical fitness is the work capacity of a person and his ability to perform actions in a correct and successful way (Zorba & Saygın, 2009)
Basketball players, who are playing in U16 league (n=12), and football players playing in U17 league (n=10) participated in the study voluntarily
30 m sprint mean of 60 basketball players aged 13-16 was detected as 4.77±0.24 seconds (Bayramoğlu, 1998)
Summary
Physical fitness is the work capacity of a person and his ability to perform actions in a correct and successful way (Zorba & Saygın, 2009). Skill-related physical fitness can be listed as agility, balance, speed, coordination, power and attention. Agility is the ability of the body to perform in a fast, proper and controlled way the actions that are demanded from it. Coordination is the ability of the body to carry out senses such as visual or audio together with motoric movements, which are performed by one or more organs, in a harmonic and proper manner simultaneously. Speed is the ability to perform the desired movement in a short time interval (Akyüz et al, 2017). Balance is the ability to keep proper stance while standing firm or moving (Karagül et al, 2017; Akyüz, 2017)
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