Box-jumping Training with Adding Weights and Auxiliary Tools and Its Effect on the Achievement Ability of the Legs and Accuracy Shoot from Jumping to the Zone Area for Advanced Basketball Players

Abstract

Box-jumping exercises, which are considered a type of plyometric training, are one of the training methods
that can be used in a wide field to develop muscular capacity and strength distinguished by speed (according
to the type and requirements of the activity) and which has to do with the development of the achievement
ability of various sports, including the game of basketball, which is a series of interconnected technical skills
that the player needs in high coordination and compatibility, as the basketball player, in order to obtain good
technical performance, must have the basic physical elements and high skill performance, and he must use
all the muscles and joints of the body working on movement accurately. It is high and smooth because it
helps to collect the force produced from all the muscles from the bottom of the foot to other parts. The aim
of the research is to prepare box-jumping exercises from different heights and distances, and this is done
with weights added to the trunk, arms and legs once, and again with tools that help in the performance of
jumping from the boxes and this will be determined according to the amounts of work-ability and according
to the goal of each exercise, and to identify the effect of these exercises to developing achievement ability of
the legs and shoot accuracy from jumping to the zone for advanced basketball players. The aforementioned
exercises were applied for a period of two months at the rate of three training units per week on the research
sample. They are the players of Al-Tadamon Sports Club participating in the Elite Advanced League, the
number of which is 12 players. In a random way, they were divided into two equal groups.