THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HEART RATE VARIABILITY AND ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE IN BASKETBALL PLAYERS

Abstract

Purpose: For basketball players, improving athletic performance is one of the main keys to success and the autonomic nervous system can also affect athletic performance. Heart rate variability can be associated with sportive performance as a marker of the autonomic nervous system. Our study was planned to investigate the relationship between heart rate variability method and basketball-specific sportive performance. Methods: The study was conducted with 20 male basketball players. Vertical jump and seated chest pass test were used to evaluate strength, T agility test was used to evaluate agility, lower and upper extremity Y balance tests were used to evaluate balance and Johnson Basketball Test Battery was used to evaluate basketball specific performances. Autonomic nervous system was evaluated by heart rate variability. The relationships between heart rate variability (HRV) results and performance results were analyzed. Results: Correlations were found at various levels between the vertical jump and seated chest pass tests and some parameters of the HRV, between the T agility test and some parameters of the HRV, and between the Johnson Basketball Test Battery and some parameters of the HRV (p<0.05). No statistically significant correlation was found between upper and lower extremity Y balance tests and HRV parameters (p>0.05). Conclusion: Since the results of our study show that HRV may be related to performance, it is suggested that measuring HRV assessments at different periods during the whole season may be useful for athlete evaluations. However, it is thought that more detailed studies are needed in this field for clearer information.

Keywords

• basketball
• heart rate variability
• performance
• autonomic nervous system

BASKETBOLCULARDA KALP HIZI DEĞİŞKENLİĞİ VE SPORTİF PERFORMANS ARASINDAKİ İLİŞKİ

Öz

Öz: Basketbol oyuncuları için atletik performansı artırmak başarının ana anahtarlarından biridir ve otonom sinir sistemi de atletik performansı etkileyebilir. Kalp hızı değişkenliği (KHD), otonom sinir sisteminin bir belirteci olarak sportif performans ile ilişkilendirilebilir. Amaç: Çalışmamız kalp hızı değişkenliği yöntemi ile basketbola özgü sportif performans arasındaki ilişkiyi araştırmak üzere planlanmıştır. Yöntem: Çalışma 20 erkek basketbolcu ile gerçekleştirildi. Kuvveti değerlendirmek için dikey sıçrama ve oturarak göğüs pas testi, çevikliği değerlendirmek için T çeviklik testi, dengeyi değerlendirmek için alt ve üst ekstremite Y denge testleri ve basketbola özgü performansları değerlendirmek için Johnson Basketbol Test Bataryası kullanıldı. Otonom sinir sistemi kalp atım hızı değişkenliği ile değerlendirilmiştir. KHD sonuçları ile performans sonuçları arasındaki ilişkiler analiz edildi. Sonuçlar: Dikey sıçrama ve oturarak göğüs pas testleri ile KHD'nin bazı parametreleri arasında, T çeviklik testi ile KHD'nin bazı parametreleri arasında ve Johnson Basketbol Test Bataryası ile KHD'nin bazı parametreleri arasında çeşitli düzeylerde korelasyonlar bulundu (p<0.05). Üst ve alt ekstremite Y denge testleri ile KHD parametreleri arasında istatistiksel olarak anlamlı bir korelasyon bulunmadı (p>0.05). Tartışma: Çalışmamızın sonuçları KHD'nin performansla ilişkili olabileceğini gösterdiğinden, KHD değerlendirmelerinin tüm sezon boyunca farklı dönemlerde ölçülmesinin sporcu değerlendirmeleri için yararlı olabileceği önerilmektedir. Ancak daha net bilgiler için bu alanda daha detaylı çalışmalara ihtiyaç olduğu düşünülmektedir.

Anahtar Kelimeler

• basketbol
• performans
• otonom sinir sistemi
• kalp atım hızı değişkenliği

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