Fioretta Silvestri, Matteo Campanella, Maurizio Bertollo, Maicon Rodrigues Albuquerque, Valerio Bonavolontà, Fabrizio Perroni, Carlo Baldari, Laura Guidetti, Davide Curzi
Cognitive-motor training could be used to improve open-skill sport performances, increasing cognitive demands to stimulate executive function (EF) development. Nevertheless, a distributed training proposal for the improvement of EFs is increasingly difficult to combine with seasonal sport commitments. This study aimed to investigate whether a massed basketball training program enriched with Fitlight training can improve EFs and motor performance. Forty-nine players (age = 15.0 ± 1.5 yrs) were assigned to the control and Fitlight-trained (FITL) groups, which performed 3 weeks of massed basketball practice, including 25 min per day of shooting sessions or Fitlight training, respectively...
January 1, 2023: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health