Study on the physical capacity in the individual roles of basic competitive volleyball

Abstract

Testing is used to measure performance and, therefore, check for improvements resulting from training activities. More and more frequently, coaches require checks even during the current sporting season to measure the status of the athletes' performance and to eventually change their training plans in order to make them more productive. Therefore, more and more often testing has a monitoring function and, for this reason, an adaptation to ordinary training activities is required to allow it. The purpose of this study is to monitor the state of some physical abilities in the team sport of volleyball at a basic competitive level. The method is experimental longitudinal and it consists in detecting the initial and the final data in a period of time of 6 months for the following skills: high jump, long jump, reaction speed, upper limb strength, lower limbs speed, shoulder girdle mobility and back chain flexibility in a sample of 12 athletes aged from 18 to 30 years. The tests are the following: skipe jump; block jump; reaction speed; upper limb strenght; long jump; 9-3-6-3-9 speed; side test; six balls test; shoulder girdle mobility; flexibilty rear chain. From the results, it comes out that the physical abilities (resulting from the training activities) were optimally monitored. The goal is therefore achieved, because the coach has verified the athletes’ performance status and he has specifically noted an improvement At the end, the study was useful for the purpose but it is necessary to improve the evaluation tools and to adapt them to the training plans.