Effects of 8-week medicine ball training on physical and skill performance among basketball players

Medicine ball training has been studied to determine if it can help to improve physical performance and skills performance of basketball players. This study investigated the effects of eight weeks of medicine ball training on physical performance and basketball skill performance among male basketball players aged 18 to 24 years. 28 subjects were recruited into two groups, namely the experimental group (EG) and the control group (CG), with 14 subjects in each group (EG: mean age was 21.25 ±1.34 and CG: mean age was 20.52 ±1.77). To detect differences within and between the study groups, repeated-measures ANOVA was used. The analyses demonstrated significant pre-test, mid-test and post-test effects on physical performance. All the physical performance fitness variables examined were significant with p<0.01 and the skill performance analyses showed significant differences in all variables with p