The effect of mental-physical relaxation exercises on the skill of scoring from the follow-up basketball for players

Abstract

Basketball is one of the team games in which the integrated integration processes between the mind and the skillful physical movements contribute to the player reaching the maximum possible mastery and benefiting from the kinetic and physical energy in the skillful performance, and one of the important foundations in sports training is for the athlete to perform the entire skill series, and thus he needs attention, imagination, relaxation and comprehension to know the aspects of performing the skill and practicing it skillfully. The study aimed to identify the effect of mental and muscle relaxation exercises prepared by the researchers on a sample of Al-Hilla Sports Club basketball players, numbering (20) players, who were divided into two groups, a control and an experimental group, with 10 players for each group. Mental relaxation exercises were applied for 4 weeks, with 3 training units per week, i.e. for 12 training units. The duration of the training unit with mental and muscle relaxation ranged between 25-28 minutes. Pre-tests were conducted, and then the mental and muscle relaxation exercise curriculum was prepared. After the exercise period was completed, post-tests were conducted, and the data was unloaded, and then processed using the SPSS statistical package to obtain and discuss the research results. The researchers concluded that the mental relaxation exercises had a positive effect on developing the scoring skill from the follow-up. The experimental group also excelled in the skill at the expense of the control group. The researchers attributed this to the players applying the mental and muscle relaxation exercises. The researchers also recommended the necessity of using the relaxation exercises prepared to develop basic basketball skills, as they Proven effective in this study.