Recovery strategies for sports performance in the Spanish professional basketball league (ACB)

  1. Calleja-González, Julio 1
  2. Altarriba-Bartes, Albert 2
  3. Mielgo-Ayuso, Juan 3
  4. Casals, Martí 2
  5. Terrados, Nicolás
  6. Peña, Javier 2
  1. 1 Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
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    Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea

    Lejona, España

    ROR https://ror.org/000xsnr85

  2. 2 University of Vic-Central University of Catalonia
  3. 3 Universidad de Burgos
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    Universidad de Burgos

    Burgos, España

    ROR https://ror.org/049da5t36

Journal:
Cultura, ciencia y deporte

ISSN: 1696-5043

Year of publication: 2021

Volume: 16

Issue: 49

Pages: 411-424

Type: Article

DOI: 10.12800/CCD.V16I49.1643 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR

More publications in: Cultura, ciencia y deporte

Abstract

This study aimed to describe the recovery strategies used by the Spanish professional basketball teams playing in the “Liga ACB.” Data from all teams during the 2019-2020 season (n = 18), and the team promoted for the season 2020-2021 were collected using a six-section online survey. Protocols, timings, and recovery strategies employed differed among teams. However, natural and physical recovery strategies such as sleep/nap, food/fluid replacement, active field, or gym-based cool-downs, use of supplementation, active or passive stretching, cold/ice bath/shower/immesion, massage, and foam-rolling were the most used among seventeen teams (>89%). Food and fluid replacement, showed a higher presence in the recovery protocols after competition and practice, always used by thirteen or more teams (~70%). The design and supervision of recovery are multidisciplinary tasks in 74% of the teams. Only two teams (11%) acknowledged not periodizing or individualizing recovery, while the other seventeen used these procedures regularly, considering different parameters, being previous injuries a factor always present. Teams not reaching the playoffs used a higher number of recovery strategies on average. This study provides a real vision of how the “Liga ACB” teams use recovery protocols, and pertinent contextual information that may be used for coaches and practitioners to tailor them.

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