Os efeitos do treinamento pliométrico em atletas de basquete: uma revisão sistemática da literatura

Abstract

Introduction: Basketball is a sport that demands a great physical demand for its athletes like dribbling ability, jumps, passes, turns, alternating change of directions among others. Basketball athletes need an increased demand on strength levels. Studies have shown that plyometric training has been used to increase these strength levels recommended for this population. Objective: To investigate, by a systematic review, the effects of the plyometric training on basketball athletes. Methods: An electronic search was performed using an optimized strategy in the Medline, Scielo, LILACS and PEDro databases, plus a manual search. The studies were analysed by two independent evaluators regarding eligibility and extraction of the data and possible disagreements were solved by a third evaluator. There were no restrictions on the language or date of the publications. Results: The search strategy returned 195 studies and 190 were excluded after analysis. The manual search returned a study, and this was not included, totalling five included studies. In general, all five studies showed that basketball athletes improved vertical jump, alternate direction and strength. Conclusion: Although the results are promising, indicating plyometric training as a potential resource for strength development in basketball athletes, such conclusions are based on only five studies of low to moderate methodological quality. Thus, there is still a need for more randomized clinical trials that evaluate these and other possible benefits of plyometric training in this population, in order to be scientifically proven its effects and, thus, can be adequately and reliably recommend in the training of these individuals