The Continuing Education Unit at the College of Physical Education and Sports Sciences for Girls, University of Baghdad, held a training course entitled (Modern Basketball Training and Exercises), in which the two members of the Team Games Department, Assist. Prof. Dr. Nadima Badr Muhammad and Assist. Lect. Sarah Hikmat Presented it.
The two lecturers referred to the emergence of basketball in the year (1891) by the Canadian physical education teacher James Naismith. It is considered one of the world’s most famous and popular sports, as it is less prone to injury than football.
They also showed the importance of modern exercises and training in basketball, including cross-training, which means using other recreational sports activities and maintaining physical and skill capabilities. It can also be used in transitional stages and invisible training, which comes from health and economic factors and conditions, social relations, and ways of living, such as the athlete’s clothing and food, the duration of his rest, and methods and means of recovery after fatigue, incentives, and social relations, which directly affect physical and skill numbers, and are factors outside the field or the sports hall, i.e., away from the coach’s sight. Self-training is a set of exercises performed by athletes, as they are programmed in cycles, and the transition from one exercise cycle to another is related to the full comprehension and learning of the previous cycle. These exercises are related to muscle relaxation, calming the blood vessels, and regulating the heart’s activity and breathing. Weight training is one of the forms of resistance training where weights of different sizes can be added or excluded from the total load to reach the correct resistance for each exercise and muscle group.
They pointed out the most important exercises that improve a basketball player’s performance: shooting, dribbling, defense, and basket exercises.
This course achieves one of the Sustainable Development Goals, the fourth goal: quality education.