Physical and Motor Characteristics in Basketball to Children and Youth

10.62591/ajpa.2023.12.06

Abstract

Basketball is a sport that requires basic and motor characteristics such as strength, speed,
endurance and coordination, high-intensity activities such as jumping, dribbling, shooting,
blocking and sprinting. It is also a sports discipline that requires aerobic and anaerobic energy
processes as well as including intense activities such as jump shooting, blocking shots,
movements with rapid changes of direction and high speed. In this discipline, there are many
characteristics that affect performance and proper execution of technical and tactical elements
according to the positions of the game. The purpose of this paper literature review is to
investigate and research the impact of training programs on physical parameters in basketball
in age groups. To successfully realize this review paper we studied and analyzed contemporary
scientific literature. In this literature review, basic principles of selection in several stages of
literature by means keywords are used based on works. Major databases were used through the
Jab Ref program such as Cross Ref, DOAJ, Inspire, Web of Science, Scopus, and Sport Discus
in the last 10 years. In the literature used, one can clearly see importance of understanding that,
higher quality level of sportsman movement culture, higher level of mastery of teaching tasks
and higher level of movement skills education.