Comparative Effect of Different Recovery Programmes on Blood Lactate: Comparative Analysis of Recovery Programmes on Blood Lactate in Basketball Players

Abstract

Present study was undertaken to investigate the comparative effect of different recovery programmes on Blood Lactate. A sample of Twenty (20) state level basketball players with age group of 18 to 23 years belong to Birbhum, WB India were purposively selected as subjects for the study. Further all the subjects were randomly divided into four groups and each group had 05 subjects. Three experiential groups and one control groups were formed i.e. Experimental Group-I (Cold Water Immersion group, CWIG), Experimental Group-II ( Massage group, MG),Experimental group-III (Low Intensity Stretching Group, LISG) and Control group (CG). Before beginning the training program all the subjects were informed about the purpose and procedure of study. Data on Blood Lactate was collected before the beginning of basketball match, immediately after the basketball match and after the implementation of training programs on experimental groups.The experiment was conducted during inter-club basketball tournament at sport authority of India special game centre KabiguruKrirangan, Bolpur, Birbhum, (W.B.). First of all pre data was collected before starting the match then subject were playing a full length basketball match for 40 min thereafter the data was be collected and there after 15 minutes recovery programs were implemented and final data was collected after the training programs. Data was collected by medical doctor with proper supervision and guidance of the research scholar whereas control group did not participate in any recovery programs. In order to compare the effect of three types of recovery programs (Cold Water Immersion Program, Massage Program and Low Intensity Stretching Program) on Blood Lactateof state level basketball players, descriptive statistics, 4x3 Mixed (Between-Within) repeated ANOVA was used as the statistical techniqueat 0.05 level of significance. In case of significant difference, pairwise comparisons were performed after Bonferroni adjustment. Results of the study revealed that statistically significant difference was found in main effect of training duration whereas no significant interaction effect was found between groups and training duration. Pairwise comparison between recovery durations of recovery programme of Blood Lactate shows that significant difference were found between pre match- post match and post match- after recovery, whereas no significant difference was found between pre match and after recovery. The significant change was found in Blood Lactate, among basketball players after administration of different recovery programs and for the fast and better recover of basketball players cold water immersion recovery programme was better than other recovery programme (massage and low intensity stretching).