Poster Presentation

Paper ID : 1815-12THCONG

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¹university putra malaysia

²Universiti Putra Malaysia

³University Malaya

⁴University of Paderborn

⁵University Putra Malaysia

Although many researchers study the impacts of various factors on athletes performance, very few studies demonstrate the importance of sleep for their proficiency, particularly young basketball players. This article evaluates the effects of partial sleep deprivation on two consecutive nights on different types of shoot, such as free throw, 2points, and 3points of basketball players. The method used in this study is experimental on 30 participants (mean age [SD] = 18.3 [3.9] y, age range = 17-21 y) in two groups, the control group (CG:15) and partial sleep deprivation (PSD:15) group. The results of this study illustrate that, however, the control group has no significant differences in their performance in all the tests but, subjects in PSD groups had a significant decrease in the first night of sleep deprivation and even more decrease in the second night of sleep deprivation. To sum up, partial sleep deprivation has significant effects on shoot accuracy of basketball player performances and these effects is more outstanding when it goes for two consecutive nights. The current study tested the effectiveness of partial sleep deprivation in two consecutive nights on shooting accuracy in a group of 30 young Iranian basketball players who play in the secondary league of Iran. Our findings indicated that youth basketball players experience a lower rate of shooting accuracy after only 4 hours of sleep. In other words, there are significant changes in basketball player shooting accuracy performances such as Free throw, two-point, and three-point score after two consecutive nights of partial sleep deprivation. The result of the experimental group illustrated a dramatic decrease in mean scores from Pre-test in which there was no partial sleep deprivation, to post-test 1 and post-test 2 after subjects slept just 4 hours each night. The drop was even more outstanding after the second night. But the control group did not tend to present any changes in all three test scores from pre-test to post-test1 and 2.

Basketball Players; partial sleep deprivation; Shooting accuracy; physiology of sleep

Sport physiology & nutrition