Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Journal of Young Scientist", Vol. 7
Written by Sonia VILCINSCHI, Silvia IVAN, Cătălin MILOS, Răzvan PREDA
The paper aim is to show a novel technique for tracking and monitoring the physical activity of the players in 3x3 basketball sport using a GPS system, due to the fact this particular sport is considered nowadays is one of the most spreaded urban team activity. In order to establish the best way for basketball players to improve their endurance and thus obtain better performance during the game we used for the first time in Romania a Polar monitor chest for measurement heartbeat. The results showed that 3x3 basketball game is significantly more anaerobic than the traditional 5v5 one, and even if the first one is shorter in terms of time the relative intensity is twice higher than of traditional 5v5 basketball.
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