Determination of Some Physical Fitness and Body Composition Characteristics of Young Bocce Players in Turkish National Team

Mutlu Türkmen,Ali Özkan,Murat Kul,Taner Bozkuş

doi:10.26773/smj.180201

Abstract

Determination of Some Physical Fitness and Body Composition Characteristics of Young Bocce Players in Turkish National Team

Highlights

The physiological demands of Bocce require players to be competent in several aspects of fitness, which include aerobic and anaerobic power, muscle strength, balance, flexibility and body composition
The body composition, anaerobic performance and isometric strength measurements of the Bocce players in the study are presented in Tables 1, 2, and 3; and the correlations are presented in Table 4, 5, and 6 respectively
The major finding of the present study is the existence of significant relation between body composition, anaerobic power, flexibility and isometric strength

Summary

Introduction

The physiological demands of Bocce require players to be competent in several aspects of fitness, which include aerobic and anaerobic power, muscle strength, balance, flexibility and body composition (muscle fiber distribution, muscle cross sectional area, leg volume-mass, etc). These fitness components often vary with the individual player, the positional role in the team and the team’s style of play. Anaerobic performance and muscle strength of the lower limbs are significantly associated with vertical jump height and sprinting performance (Wisloff, Castagna, Helgerud, Jones, & Hoff, 2004). Previous investigators have shown significant differences in muscle strength, anaerobic performance, sprint performance and vertical jump between team players of different ages (Çakır, Sönmez, & Yılmaz, 2009), muscle fiber distribution (Esbjornsson, Sylven, Holm, & Jansson, 1993), muscle cross sectional area (Rosene, Fogarty, & Mahaffey, 2001), leg volume, leg mass (Chelly et al, 2010), intensity of training, levels of competition (Hencken & White, 2006) and Bocce teams of different divisions (Wisloff et al, 2004; Gissis et al, 2006)

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