The Relationship Between Physical Fitness Qualities and Sport-Specific Technical Skills in Female, Team-Based Ball Players: A Systematic Review

Sports Medicine - Open

Table 4 Relationships between physical fitness components and throwing/shooting (hand-based) sport-specific technical skills from studies with fair or good methodological quality with low ROB

Physical fitness measures	Associated with technical skill		Not associated with technical skill	Summary conclusion
Physical fitness measures	# relationships assessed from each study	Statistical association	# relationships assessed from each study	n/N outcome (%)	Practical interpretation
Agility measures	1 [55]	+	7 [55]	1/8 (13%)	No association
Balance measures	1 [93]	+	7 [93]	1/8 (13%)	No association
Body composition measures	3 [67], 4 [60], 4 [65], 8 [64], 15 [63]	+/−	1 [60], 2 [65], 6 [66], 17 [91], 70 [58], 244 [64]	34/374 (9%)	No association
Cardiorespiratory fitness measures	0	N/A	2 [65], 14 [58]	0/16 (0%)	No association
Coordination measures	1 [55]	−	2 [93], 19 [55]	1/22 (5%)	No association
Flexibility measures	1 [91]	+/−	1 [91], 20 [66]	1/22 (5%)	No association
Muscular strength measures	1 [65], 1 [67], 1 [68]	+	1 [65], 2 [59], 2 [93], 4 [82], 14 [58], 16 [66]	3/42 (7%)	No association
Power measures	1 [68], 3 [59], 4 [58], 4 [65]	+	2 [60], 11 [59], 122 [58]	12/147 (8%)	No association
Speed measures	2 [65]	−	2 [65], 14 [58]	2/18 (11%)	No association

Coding: n/N number of significantly associated relationships divided by total number of relationships. # number of relationships reported with study reference number in brackets. Statistical association: + positive statistical correlations, − negative statistical correlations, +/− includes both positive and negative statistical correlations. Practical interpretation: no association (≤ 33% of total relationships are significantly associated). Note: Relationships removed from data synthesis due to poor methodological study quality and/or high risk of bias included the following categories: balance (36 relationships [57]); muscular strength (2 relationships [54], 6 relationships [62], 3 relationships [94])