Research summary · Training and performance
Time- versus distance-based sprint training in basketball
A preseason trial compares time-based and fixed-distance repeated-sprint prescriptions in collegiate basketball players.
- Publication year
- 2026
- First published online
- Publication type
- Randomised controlled trial
- Journal
- International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance
- Population / context
- Male collegiate basketball players
What the publication reports
Thirty players were randomised equally to time-based training, distance-based training or active control for seven weeks. Both sprint groups improved, while the time-based group showed larger changes in anaerobic power and cardiorespiratory fitness and less between-athlete variability.
Limits and interpretation
Groups contained ten young men each, training lasted seven weeks and individual-response analyses in small samples are unstable. The protocol is not established as universally superior.
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Effects of Time-Based and Distance-Based Repeated Sprint Training on Physical and Physiological Adaptations in Collegiate Basketball Players
Original publication / indexed recordPMID: 42547038DOI: 10.1123/ijspp.2026-0137Reader discussion
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