Handball is a dynamic multi-structured sports game that includes frequent changes of speed, direction, many accelerations, and braking in movement, and, above all, many technical and tactical activities in the attack and defense phase. This all together puts a strain on the player. The load is reflected in the parameters of the player’s effort.
The main purpose of my master´s thesis was to assess the effort of handball players in training and matches with the help of the Borg CR-10 scale. The sample of subjects included the players (n-16) of the RK Sevnica handball team, which in season 2020/2021 plays in the 1B national Slovenian handball leagues. The average age of the players was 23.7 years, average height of the players was 184,4 cm and the average weight of the players was 84.6 kg. Borg CR-10 scale in written form (on paper) was used to collect the data. The obtained data were processed using the computer program Microsoft Excel 2013 and SPSS, version 22.0. We used calculations of frequencies, percentages, standard deviations, and mean values. A one-sample t-test (p≤0.5) was used to compare the mean values of the sample concerning the hypothetical value.
It was found that the statistically significant average of handball players in each micro-cycle (one week) exceeds 2000 units on average, which means that the training sessions were very intensive concerning the individual. We found that the statistically significant average for the ratio between acute and chronic load in individual weeks (micro-cycles) is the same, which indicates that this ratio is in the range between 0.8 and 1.3.
The players experienced the effort differently. However, it was also found that there were no discrepancies in the recommended ratios between acute and chronic load in handball players during weekly cycles over six weeks.
The master´s thesis represents an important contribution to an in-depth understanding of the workload and effort during training and the related competitive success in Slovenian handball.
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