Assessment of physical performance and offensive skills during the coronavirus pandemic for a period of three months among advanced handball players

ABSTRACT

Maintaining a healthy lifestyle has become one of the great challenges facing the world amid the current Coronavirus pandemic, along with the challenge of maintaining the strength of the immune system so that it can do its work efficiently and protect the person from the severity of Covid-19 symptoms in the event of catching an infection. In light of the current situation of a large spread of the pandemic around the world, physical activity has taken special importance as it enhances immune function, reduces inflammation, and thus can reduce the severity of infection and the severity of Covid-19 symptoms. It also helps improve common chronic diseases, which are strongly linked to COVID-19 symptoms. On the other hand, sports and movement tasks are one of the best ways to calm tension and anxiety, which contributes to better physical health that challenges Corona virus. As for the most important objectives of the research, it is to identify the impact of the Corona virus pandemic during periods of absence from training for advanced handball players and to know the differences in physical performance and offensive skills during a three-month break from training for advanced handball players. As for the research methodology, it is the descriptive method and the sample was chosen by an intentional method, which included (40) players in the hand game from the clubs of Misan Governorate, and it was divided into (40) advanced players for the main experiment and (10) players for exploratory experiments. For offensive skills, the most important conclusions of the research are the tests that have been identified that have the ability to evaluate in the field using direct measurement methods during the Coronavirus pandemic. As for the most important recommendations, these tests could be adopted as evaluation methods by coaches before entering training programs to prepare players after the ban ends and to allow the practice of sporting activities.