Strategies for the optimization of the specific training of junior and specialized handballists in the extreme position

Abstract

Generally, the specific training of handball players, regardless of the level of performance, refers to the development of motor skills that are directly involved in the motor structure specific to the overall game of handball and the particular game position. Thus, specialists in the field are constantly looking for new ways to optimize specific training, which will lead to an increase in motor performances and the results of competitions. The role and importance of handball players specialized in the extreme position gets in the context of the current game an increasing involvement in the game economy, often the extreme players being the main scorers of the team, but also those who contribute to the growth of sports performance. In this context, finding the most appropriate strategies to optimize the training of handball players specialized in the extreme position, is a main objective of all specialists, regardless of the level of performance. Carried out during a competitive year, the experiment took place at the level of a handball team participating in the National Junior Championship. This paper reports an intervention on players specialized in the extreme position at the level of junior handball team I during a competitive year with a series of action systems related to the technical–tactical content and the dynamics of the effort specific to the game, leading to streamlining of the activity. The actuation systems used during the research, lead to the achievement of the proposed objectives, and the hypotheses formulated are confirmed by numerical data in terms of superior results obtained in control tests, but especially by those obtained in competitions. The obtained results were processed and interpreted statistically and mathematically through a series of specific indicators, and the conclusions are for those who work at this level of performance and can act as a support in training players specialized in this game.