Estrategias de re-calentamiento o “re-warm-up” durante el medio tiempo en baloncesto

Resumen

Basketball matches, by regulation, have a 10-15 minute break between halves that might not allow for a complete recovery from fatigue. The passive activities that generally occur during these breaks could be detrimental to second-half performance. Indeed, research has shown that passive half-time practices are not an optimal strategy for both professional and amateur players. In order to avoid a decline in sport performance in second half, re-warm-up activities could help avoid these problems. However, despite scientific evidence indicating the positive impact re-warm-up activities had on the players' subsequent physical and technical performance, most coaches continue to design their half-time strategies based on experience. Thus, coaches and sports scientists need to have valuable information at hand regarding how to develop re-warm-up to optimize athletes’ performance and reduce injury risk. The present thesis has been proposed as the main objective to evaluate the influence of re-warming up in basketball players during half-time. For this purpose, three phases were defined: i) a systematic review was carried out to analyse the scientific evidence on re-warm-up to this moment. ii) a descriptive cross-sectional study to determine the main factors that influence the performance of re-warm-up strategies in Spanish basketball teams. iii) cross-over and counterbalanced studies to identify the effects of these strategies in young female basketball players. The analysis of the main results of the thesis report suggests that the implementation of short re-warm-up strategies does not have negative results on the observed variables. On the other hand, although the differences were not significant, performing re-warm-up strategies at half-time could help to mitigate the decrease of lower body power. In summary, the completion of this thesis has allowed us to verify the influence of re-warm-up in basketball players during the half-time break, and the following conclusions have been extracted: 1- It is advisable to perform a short active re-warm-up during this rest period. 2- Passive rest should be minimised. 3- Strategies should be based on sport-specific movements or high-intensity strength exercises