The Effect of Preventive Functional Exercises on Some Biomotor Abilities and Physiological Variables For Handball Players

Abstract

Handball is one of the games that has achieved great interest in recent years, it is one of the most important
popular games in the world, when focusing on the nature of performance in handball, find that it needs
high energy to perform its skills with appropriate strength, speed And endurance, as it requires highlevel
of biomotor abilities from players when performing its skills. The researchers noted the neglect of
the preventive aspect of the players and the focus on aspects of achievement while prevention is no less
important than aspects of achievement, The aims of the research were preparing preventive functional
exercises, and identifying the effect of preventive functional exercises on some biomotor abilities and
physiological variables for handball players. Researchers used the experimental method to study the
problem of the research by implementation of the experimental design using pre-test and post-test. The
research’s community consisted of 20 players from the Karbala Sports Club, they were divided into two
equal groups (experimental and control groups). The researchers implemented pre-tests for players who
represent the research community, Preventive exercises applied with members of the experimental group
for 8 weeks, 3 session per week, 24 training sessions, Post-tests were conducted for the experimental and
control groups, After gathered data, it was processed statistically using the statistical package SPSS, The
researchers concluded the preventive functional exercises have a positive effect on developing of some
biomotor abilities and physiological variables for handball players.