Evaluation of peripheral muscle strength, behavior and sleep quality in women’s amateur basketball

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Introduction: Basketball is a team sport, characterized by repeated transitions between attack, defense and frequent changes in movement and direction, in which players need great athletic ability to demonstrate speed, strength and power. The grip becomes important because it is one of the basic basketball movements in controlling the ball, and the quality and behavior of sleep is configured as an important regeneration tool and can influence the recovery and the physical and sport performance of athletes, since the poor quality of sleep can affect the maximum performance and impair adaptations to training. Methodology: This was an exploratory study, with the purpose of analyzing the quality and behavior of sleep and handgrip strength in amateur basketball players from the Federal University of Santa Maria - RS. Results: Fourteen athletes with a mean age of 22.5±3.3 years participated in this study. In the athlete’s sleep behavior questionnaire, 70% of the athletes pointed out a bad sleep behavior; in the Pittsburg Sleep Quality Index questionnaire, 78.6% presented a bad sleep quality. In relation to handgrip strength, the average was 27.4 kgf in the right upper limb and 25.7 kgf in the left upper limb. Conclusion: There is a pattern of poor sleep quality and poor sleep behavior, and no correlation with palmar grip strength, since no statistical difference was found between the right and left upper limbs.