Developing Endurance for Sport Performance in a Basketball Team
Karjalainen, Valtteri (2021)
Karjalainen, Valtteri
2021
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Basketball is gaining popularity in Finland thanks to the well playing national team
Susijengi and a high-quality domestic league Korisliiga and both of their star players.
Basketball requires multiple physical aspects of athletes’ capabilities. Endurance is one of
the primary characteristics of basketball and not as much investigated as for example
football’s endurance pillar. Team sports, such as basketball, require a lot of aerobic
conditions of players to perform to perform at a high-level, maintain power output in
repeated high-intensity efforts, and recover fast. A need was found for this project when
coaching as an assistant coach in the season 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 Lahti Basketball Juniors U19 Boys.
Lahti Basketball Juniors is a Lahti-based junior and hobby basketball club. It is one of the
biggest and most influential basketball clubs in Finland. The values of the club are Joy,
Quality, and Communality. Today the club has a team of every age group and gender. The
club is also a Finnish Olympic Committee “Star Club” (Tähtiseura). The fundamental idea
of the club is to offer juniors and hobby players of different ages the opportunity to play
basketball at a level that suits everyone.
The thesis Developing Endurance for Sports Performance in a Basketball Team is dealing
with the endurance part of basketball and the development of the feature for the youth
athlete. The primary goal was to offer a good, scientifically correct and working endurance
developing manual that is also used at the practices of the U19 boys’ Lahti Basketball
Juniors. Essentially, there was a secondary aim that the thesis also gathers down much
recent information about the endurance building for basketball.
The methods were the literature usage and expert interviews. Starting of the project was
during August 2020 and the checkpoints of the thesis were arranged in November 2020
and January 2021.
The final product of the thesis is the endurance developing manual. The manual, which is
justified according to the literature, contains annual preview, six sample weeks, and the
tests appendix. It will be put into service by Lahti Basketball Juniors U19 boys in the
season’s start 2021-2022 as starting level test and endurance practices. Basketball teams are advised to make similar programs for their athletes in the future and the under 19 is the desired age to train endurance. The results of the programme will be tested with the test appendices all along the season 2021-2022.
Susijengi and a high-quality domestic league Korisliiga and both of their star players.
Basketball requires multiple physical aspects of athletes’ capabilities. Endurance is one of
the primary characteristics of basketball and not as much investigated as for example
football’s endurance pillar. Team sports, such as basketball, require a lot of aerobic
conditions of players to perform to perform at a high-level, maintain power output in
repeated high-intensity efforts, and recover fast. A need was found for this project when
coaching as an assistant coach in the season 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 Lahti Basketball Juniors U19 Boys.
Lahti Basketball Juniors is a Lahti-based junior and hobby basketball club. It is one of the
biggest and most influential basketball clubs in Finland. The values of the club are Joy,
Quality, and Communality. Today the club has a team of every age group and gender. The
club is also a Finnish Olympic Committee “Star Club” (Tähtiseura). The fundamental idea
of the club is to offer juniors and hobby players of different ages the opportunity to play
basketball at a level that suits everyone.
The thesis Developing Endurance for Sports Performance in a Basketball Team is dealing
with the endurance part of basketball and the development of the feature for the youth
athlete. The primary goal was to offer a good, scientifically correct and working endurance
developing manual that is also used at the practices of the U19 boys’ Lahti Basketball
Juniors. Essentially, there was a secondary aim that the thesis also gathers down much
recent information about the endurance building for basketball.
The methods were the literature usage and expert interviews. Starting of the project was
during August 2020 and the checkpoints of the thesis were arranged in November 2020
and January 2021.
The final product of the thesis is the endurance developing manual. The manual, which is
justified according to the literature, contains annual preview, six sample weeks, and the
tests appendix. It will be put into service by Lahti Basketball Juniors U19 boys in the
season’s start 2021-2022 as starting level test and endurance practices. Basketball teams are advised to make similar programs for their athletes in the future and the under 19 is the desired age to train endurance. The results of the programme will be tested with the test appendices all along the season 2021-2022.