Performance and Metabolic Demand of a New Repeated-Sprint Ability Test in Basketball Players: Does the Number of Changes of Direction Matter?

Alessandro Moura Zagatto; Luca Paolo Ardigò; Fabio Augusto Barbieri; Fabio Milioni; Antonio Dello Iacono; Bruno H.F Camargo; Johnny Padulo

doi:https://doi.org/10.1519/jsc.0000000000001710

doi.org/10.1519/jsc.0000000000001710

Performance and Metabolic Demand of a New Repeated-Sprint Ability Test in Basketball Players: Does the Number of Changes of Direction Matter?

Alessandro Moura Zagatto

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Luca Paolo Ardigò

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..., Johnny Padulo

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The Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research

Volume: 31, Issue: 9, Pages: 2438 - 2446

Published: Sep 1, 2017

Abstract

Zagatto, AM, Ardigò, LP, Barbieri, FA, Milioni, F, Dello Iacono, A, Camargo, BHF, and Padulo, J. Performance and metabolic demand of a new repeated-sprint ability test in basketball players: does the number of changes of direction matter? J Strength Cond Res 31(9): 2438–2446, 2017—This study compared 2 repeated-sprint ability (RSA) tests in basketball players. Both tests included 10 × 30-m sprints, with the difference that the previously...