Trial reportPloS one2020
Effects of small-sided recreational team handball training on mechanical muscle function, body composition and bone mineralization in untrained young adults-A randomized controlled trial.
Trial report in PloS one, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04247724 (The Physiological Health Effects of 12 Weeks of Small-sided Team Handball Training in Young Adult Women and Men), which is not on this map. Cited by 10 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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The Physiological Health Effects of 12 Weeks of Small-sided Team Handball Training in Young Adult Women and Men
Who cites it
10 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 12 citations in OpenAlex.
- Health Benefits of Different Sports: a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Longitudinal and Intervention Studies Including 2.6 Million Adult Participants.Sports medicine - open · 2024Pooled it
- Effects of Exercise and Sports Intervention and the Involvement Level on the Mineral Health of Different Bone Sites in the Leg, Hip, and Spine: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Pooled it
- Comparing The Effects of Small-Sided Handball Games and High-Intensity Interval Training on The Physical Health and Fitness of Untrained Individuals: A 16-Week Randomized Controlled Study.Journal of sports science & medicine · 2026Trial
- Effect of basketball-based small-sided games and running-based high-intensity interval training on physical fitness in untrained young adults: a randomized controlled study.BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation · 2026Article
- Handball small-sided games and running-based high-intensity interval training similarly improve sprint, change-of-direction, and repeated-sprint performance in untrained young adults.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Effects of an eight-week team handball intervention on balance and leg strength in older adults: a pilot study.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2026Article
- Review
- Effects of Off-Season Heavy-Load Resistance Training on Lower Limb Mechanical Muscle Function and Physical Performance in Elite Female Team Handball Players.Journal of functional morphology and kinesiology · 2024Article
- Test-retest reliability of lower limb muscle strength, jump and sprint performance tests in elite female team handball players.European journal of applied physiology · 2024Article
- A 3-Month Modified Basketball Exercise Program as a Health-Enhancing Sport Activity for Middle-Aged Individuals.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
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9 authors at 2 institutions in 4 countries.
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Abstract
Prolonged physical inactivity in young adults may lead to deficiencies in musculoskeletal fitness, and thus a need exists to develop physical activity and exercise programmes that are effective of increasing musculoskeletal fitness. The aim of this study, therefore, was to investigate the effects of small-sided team handball training on lower limb muscle strength, postural balance and body composition in young adults. Twenty-six men and twenty-eight women were stratified for peak oxygen uptake (VO2peak) and body fat percentage and randomly allocated to either 12 wks of small-sided recreational team handball training (THG: 14 men and 14 women, age 24.1±2.6 yrs (mean±SD), VO2peak 39.8±5.9 ml/kg/min and body fat percentage 32.7±8.7%) or serving as non-exercising controls (CON: 12 men and 14 women, age 24.8±3.1 yrs, VO2peak 39.7±5.0 ml/kg/min, body fat percentage 31.7±9.7%). THG trained on average 1.8 times/week for 12 wks. At 0 and 12 wks, lower limb muscle strength, rate of force development (RFD), vertical jump height and power, postural balance, body composition and muscle biopsies were assessed. No training effects were observed for maximal isokinetic or isometric knee extensor strength, maximal vertical jump height or take-off power, fibre type distribution or capillarization. Late phase (RFD) increased (+7.4%, p<0.05) and postural sway excursion length was improved after training (-9%, p<0.05) in THG with no difference from CON (p>0.05). Further, THG demonstrated a decrease in body fat percentage (-3.7%) accompanied by increases in whole-body fat free mass (FFM) (+2.2%), leg FFM (+2.5%), total bone mineral content (BMC) (+1.1%), leg BMC (+1.2%), total hip bone mineral density (+1.6%) and hip T-score (+50%) which differed from CON (all p<0.05). In conclusion, recreational small-sided team handball training appears to effectively improve rapid force capacity, postural balance, lean and fat body mass and bone health in previously untrained young adults. The study was registered at ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT04247724). ClinicalTrials.gov ID number: NCT04247724.
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