Abstract
Basketball requires a good physical fitness condition, a good physical fitness needs an adequate exercise program, one of the popular exercise program is fartlek method. The purpose of this study is to know the effect of fartlek method that have had done for eight weeks (twice in a week) towards the VO2max of SMP Kristen Satya Wacana’s male basketball extracurricular. Based on the previous study about physical fitness, the participants of SMP Kristen Satya Wacana’s basketball extracurricular had a poor physical fitness proven by the result of cooper test that shown the VO2max on SMP Kristen Satya Wacana’s male basketball extracurricular was 29,19 ml⸱kg-1⸱min-1 (very poor).The VO2max was calculated using cooper test. The VO2max’s result on this research is 53,49 19 ml-kg-1-min-1, which is very good. T-tests were used to determine the result of pretest and postest, and the result of the vo2max is 26,03111±7,5 ml∙kg-1∙min-1 (p<0,05). Based on the result of this research, fartlek could be used to increase the VO2max of basketball male athletes of SMP Kristen Satya Wacana Salatiga.
Highlights
Physical fitness is a physical condition that allows a person to do a job without feeling tired, and still has a good ability for other jobs
The purpose of this study is to find out whether the fartlek method can be useful for improving the physical fitness of male basketball athletes at Satya Wacana Christian Middle School Salatiga?
VO2max examination was performed using a 12-minute running instrument in the form of a test running around the running track on section 1 for 12 minutes to determine the level of VO2max in athletes
Summary
Physical fitness is a physical condition that allows a person to do a job without feeling tired, and still has a good ability for other jobs (halim, 2012; suharjana & purwanto, 2008). Physical fitness is influenced by two aspects, namely health and performance, health aspects consist of: heart fitness, lungs, smooth circulation, fat in the body, and flexibility in the joints. The basketball game is played by two teams, each team consists of 12 players, with players in the field as many as 5 people while in the reserve it contains 7 people, playing this basketball game there are two ways to do it by attacking and defending, the winning team is the team that has the most boal in the ring (butolo, 2013). Basketball games are very interesting to play because basketball games can be played by all teenagers, adults and the elderly. In basketball games a person is required to master the basic techniques of basketball games, fitness, coordination, good endurance. In basketball games there is not often body contact, because there are game rules so that injuries do not occur to an athlete (rustanto, 2015)
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