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The Difference In Aerobic Capacity And Anaerobic Power Between Young Male Recreational Basketball And Soccer Players, Lesley Ngo Jun 2012

The Difference In Aerobic Capacity And Anaerobic Power Between Young Male Recreational Basketball And Soccer Players, Lesley Ngo

Kinesiology Student Research

Basketball and Soccer are two sports that are usually played recreationally that provide for an active lifestyle. At competitive levels of both sports athletes undergo different kinds of training in order to improve performance for longer periods of time but not recreationally. Basketball and soccer are sports which often require the use of both anaerobic and aerobic faculties of energy production in activities including but not limited to: dribbling, sprinting, passing, shooting, walking and jumping. The purpose of this research was to investigate the difference in aerobic capacity and anaerobic power between young male recreational basketball and soccer players. It …