Journal
APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL
Volume 12, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/app12041865
Keywords
change of direction; motor component; reactive agility; reactive strength; sensory component; sprint speed
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- Scientific Grant Agency of the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic
- Slovak Academy of Sciences [1/0089/20]
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This study investigates the relationship between reactive agility in basketball players and sensory and motor components, as well as determinants of the Y-shaped agility test. The findings suggest that Y-shaped agility performance is more influenced by motor components and is not related to simple and choice-based reaction times.
Y-shaped agility test is a reactive agility test that includes both sensory and motor components. However, there is a lack of information about the contribution of these components to reactive agility in basketball players. Therefore, this study investigates: (i) the relationship between Y-shaped agility performance and reaction speed, sprint speed, change of direction speed, muscle strength, and (ii) determinants of this reactive agility test. Eleven male basketball players performed a Y-shaped agility test, 5 m and 20 m sprints, a 505 Agility test, squat, countermovement and drop jumps, and simple and two-choice reaction time tests. The results revealed a significant relationship between the time in Y-shaped agility test and 5 m sprint time (r = 0.795, p = 0.003, R-2 = 0.632), 20 m sprint time (r = 0.676, p = 0.022, R-2 = 0.457), and reactive strength index (r = -0.619, p = 0.042, R-2 = 0.383), but not with simple and choice-based reaction times. These findings indicate that performance in the Y-shaped agility test is more profoundly determined by a motor rather than a sensory component. This may be ascribed to the structure of a predominantly velocity-oriented Y-shaped agility test with a small contribution of responses to visual stimuli. The adaptation of basketball players to training aimed at increasing speed and strength may also play a role. The structure of the Y-shaped agility test should be modified so as to better reflect the sensory component of reactive agility and more sensitively reveal within- and between-group differences.
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