Journal
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSIOLOGY
Volume 112, Issue 8, Pages 2881-2889Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00421-011-2259-7
Keywords
Maturity offset basketball; Anthropometry; Proportional allometric modeling; Moments of force; Adolescence
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- Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia [SFRH/BD/41647/2007, SFRH/BD/64648/2009, PTDC/DES/121772/2010]
- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia [SFRH/BD/64648/2009, SFRH/BD/41647/2007] Funding Source: FCT
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The relationships between knee joint isokinetic strength, biological maturity status and body size were examined in 14-16-year-old basketball players, considering proportional allometric modeling. Biological maturity status was assessed with maturity offset protocol. Stature, body mass, sitting height, and estimated thigh volume were measured by anthropometry. Maximal moments of force of concentric and eccentric muscular actions for the knee extensors and flexors were assessed by isokinetic dynamometry at 60A degrees A s(-1). Regression analysis revealed a linear relation between maximal moments of force of the knee extensors in both muscular actions and knee flexors in concentric actions were moderately high (0.55 a parts per thousand currency sign r a parts per thousand currency sign 0.64). As for knee flexors in eccentric actions, a squared term of maturity indicator was significant indicating that the relationship with maturity offset tended to plateau approximately 2 years after PHV. Incorporating maturity indicator term with body size term (body mass or thigh volume) in the allometric models revealed that the size exponents for both body mass and thigh volume were reduced compared with simple allometric modeling. The results indicate a significant inter-individual variation in lower-limb isokinetic strength performance at 60A degrees A s(-1) in concentric and eccentric muscular actions in late adolescent basketball players. The variability in performance is related to inter-individual variation in estimated time before or after peak height velocity, as well as differences in body size. Proportional allometric models indicate that the influence of estimated time from age at peak height velocity on isokinetic strength performance is mostly mediated by corresponding changes in overall body mass.
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