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Study Design
The study involved 18 wheelchair basketball athletes, including six classified below 2.5 and 12 classified above 3.0 under IWBF categories. Participants completed either six weeks of battle-rope sprint interval training or continued their normal training. The research addressed limited evidence on conditioning methods for wheelchair athletes.
Training Protocol
The intervention used two weekly sessions, each comprising four 15-second maximal-effort battle-rope sprints with the alternating-whip exercise. Athletes rested for 45 seconds between efforts, and sessions were separated by at least 48 hours. Testing before and after the intervention included a 12-minute push test, handgrip strength, a modified T test, and a 20-metre sprint with split times.
Reported Outcomes
The battle-rope group increased its average 12-minute push-test distance from 2,547 metres to 2,840 metres, with a reported p-value below 0.001. The control group showed no significant change, moving from 2,391 to 2,377 metres. No other measured outcomes improved significantly compared with control. The record summarizes an abstract, so these findings should not be treated as treatment recommendations.
