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JOURNAL OF SPORTS SCIENCES
Volume 33, Issue 14, Pages 1454-1458Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/02640414.2014.990494
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motor skills; sports; heart rate; analysis; metabolism; task performance
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- CONI Italian Olympic Committee, Sardinia, Italy [17]
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The free throw (FT) is a fundamental basketball skill used frequently during a match. Most of actual play occurs at about 85% of maximum heart rate (HR). Metabolic intensity, through fatigue, may influence a technically skilled move as the FT is. Twenty-eight under 17 basketball players were studied while shooting FTs on a regular indoor basketball court. We investigated FT accuracy in young male basketball players shooting at three different HRs: at rest, at 50% and at 80% of maximum experimentally obtained HR value. We found no significant FT percentage difference between rest and 50% of the maximum HR (FT percentage about 80%; P>0.05). Differently, at 80% of the maximum HR the FT percentage decreased significantly by more than 20% (P<0.001) down to about 60%. No preliminary warm-up is needed before entering game for the FT accuracy. Furthermore, we speculate that time-consuming, cooling-off routines usually performed by shooters before each FT may be functional to improve its accuracy.
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