Effect of different recovery programs on blood lactic acid removal of Basketball players

Abstract

The objective of the study was to find out the effect of different recovery programs on blood lactic acid removal of basketball players. For the study nine inter- university level basketball players were selected from Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan, Birbhum, West Bengal, India as the subjects. They were purposively divided into three groups with equal strength in each group-Dynamic Recovery Exercise Group (n-3), Massage Group (n-3) and Control Group(n-3). Blood Lactic acid level was selected as the variable for the study. Immediately after a match, blood samples were collected to check lactic acid level as pre-test data. 2nd day after match and 15 minutes recovery programs i.e. dynamic recovery exercise program and massage program, blood samples of all the 3-groups was collected to check the post test data. To calculate the data descriptive statistics, Analysis of Co-variance (ANCOVA) and LSD post-hoc and were used. The result revealed the significant effect of recovery programs (F-6.021) and the mean difference was found significant between the DE group and Control group (MD-0.16) and between the Massage group and control group (MD-0.17) which were higher than the critical value i.e. 0.041 at 0.05 level of significance. No significant difference was found between the two experimental groups.