The Effect of Using Pilates Exercises to Develop the Performance of Some Offensive and Defensive Movements for Junior Handball Players in Misan Governorate

Abstract

The importance of researching the preparation of Pilates-style exercises to develop the performance of offensive and defensive movements for junior handball players in misan Governorate became clear. By examining some training curricula for junior handball players, the researchers noted a lack of interest in using the Pilates-style training method. Pilates is used by instructors in this category when developing vocabulary and exercises for their training curricula. Hence, the research problem and the researchers’ desire to develop Pilates-style exercises that interact to achieve cohesion between the collective and individual performance of the players, which affects the proper handling of the balls that the team obtains or loses. Therefore, we decided to add exercises in this style to develop offensive and defensive movements in order to achieve successful positive steps during the game for the junior handball category in order to improve the possibility of obtaining the ball well and then scoring goals to win the match. We hope that this research will be an aid to coaches in training their players in the future. The research objectives were manifested in preparing Pilates-style exercises to develop defensive and offensive movements for junior players, as well as to identify the effect of the prepared exercises on defensive and offensive movements. As for the research community, the research community was determined as the junior players of the specialized center for handball in misan Governorate, numbering (28) players and aged (12-14) years. The researchers took the community by the comprehensive enumeration method to become the research sample (28), and they were divided by lot into two groups, the first The research aims to develop the research methodology in the three groups, which were divided into two groups: experimental and control, and a homogeneity test was conducted for them, as well as scientific foundations. Six tests were adopted to study the research problem. The third chapter included a presentation, analysis and discussion of the research results. The most prominent conclusions and recommendations reached by the researchers were the tests that were identified that there were positive differences between the results of the pre- and post-tests of the two research groups, in favor of the post-tests in training on offensive and defensive movements in handball under study. There were also positive differences between the two research groups in training on offensive and defensive movements under study in the post-tests, all in favor of the experimental group, which confirms that the training method used had a clear impact due to its suitability to the level of the players and their skill and physical abilities, and that the use of the training method has an effective impact in training on these offensive and defensive movements in handball.