Abstract
Abstract Handball is one of the most practiced team sports worldwide that consists of different modalities, with the aim of reaching as many users as possible. One of the modalities with increasing interest in the last years is Beach Handball, as it takes the advantage of the absence of competitive calendar in the standardized modality so that users continue practicing. A comparative analysis was performed between standard handball (indoor) and beach handball athletes in order to determine the demands of both modalities and determine if they are similar. The competition was evaluated by analyzing external load variables: number of steps, jumps, impacts and Player load. The selected sample was composed of U-16 players from both modalities. Each player was equipped with WIMUTM inertial device. The results showed that the standard modality requires greater physical demands than the beach modality. For this reason, the physical demands of the different modalities require different training processes to obtain the best possible results in the competition.
Highlights
Handball is classified as collaboration-opposition sport or invasion sport[1]
Acc: Accelerations; Decel: Decelerations; Acc / min: Accelerations per minute; Decel / min: Decelerations per minute; Impacts 0-5G: Impacts received with force between 0 and 5G; Impacts 5-8G: Impacts received with force between 5 and 8G; Impacts> 8G: Impacts received greater than 8G; Impacts 0-5G / min: Impacts received with force between 0 and 5 G per minute; Impacts 5-8G / min: Impacts received with force between 5 and 8 G per minute; Impacts> 8G / min: Impacts received greater than 8G per minute; PL / min: Player Load per minute; P-value =
There are few references on works with the same theme, with the vast majority being studies related to the analysis of the standard modality in high-level teams or national teams[19] or to beach handball championships in the elite-level amateur category[26,27]
Summary
Handball is categorized as a hybrid sport, since, during practice, there are moments in which actions require aerobic metabolism and moments that require anaerobic metabolism[3], with great amount and variety in movements, ball manipulations and interaction with other players. Handball is constantly evolving, demanding greater physiological adaptations and specific morphological characteristics from athletes[4]. These evolutions sometimes affect the creation and enhancement of other variants of the sport. In this case, as an evolution to conventional handball, beach handball has been developed and promoted in recent years
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