Competitive demands of elite handball

(Wettkampfanforderungen im Leistungshandball)

Team handball has received growing interest during the past decades. Understanding the technical and physical demands of the sport is essential for talent identification, injury prevention and the design of position-specific training programmes both in developing and professional players. To date, on-court physical and physiological demands during games have been only partially reviewed and the influence of playing positions on these demands has been overlooked. In this review - a condensed summary of our previous work - we attempt to present recent knowledge from both the scientific and technical literature on the various technical, tactical and physical aspects of elite team handball performance, with a special emphasis on positional demands. The data reviewed in this article are limited to elite male players (that is, those competing in the strongest leagues in Europe and/ or during international championships). Playing standard, country league and gender are likely to modify game demands and thus deserve more specific analyses in the future.
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Schlagworte: Handball Hochleistungssport männlich Leistungssport Leistungsstruktur Leistungsfaktor Wettkampf Technik Belastung Belastbarkeit
Notationen: Spielsportarten
Veröffentlicht in: ASPETAR Sports Medicine Journal
Veröffentlicht: 2014
Jahrgang: 3
Heft: 2
Seiten: 112-119
Dokumentenarten: Artikel
Sprache: Englisch
Level: mittel