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

Sports Medicine - Open

Table 6 Relationships between physical fitness components and offensive 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
	# relationships assessed from each study	Statistical association	# relationships assessed from each study	n/N outcome (%)	Practical interpretation
Agility measures	1 [88], 2 [90]	−	1 [88], 3 [79], 4 [72], 4 [89], 4 [92]	3/19 (16%)	No association
Balance measures	1 [72]	+	1 [72]	1/2 (50%)	Unknown
Body composition measures	1 [80], 1 [92], 2 [72], 7 [89],16 [73]	+/−	10 [87], 14 [73], 14 [90], 15 [92], 17 [80], 25 [89], 30 [72]	27/152 (18%)	No association
Cardiorespiratory fitness measures	1 [79], 1 [92], 1 [88]	+/−	2 [79], 1 [88], 3 [92]	3/9 (33%)	No association
Flexibility measures	0	N/A	2 [90], 3 [79], 4 [72]	0/9 (0%)	No association
Muscular endurance measures	0	N/A	2 [72], 2 [90], 3 [79]	0/7 (0%)	No association
Muscular strength measures	1 [72]	+	2 [90], 3 [72], 4 [75], 4 [88], 6 [80]	1/20 (5%)	No association
Power measures	1 [79], 1 [88], 2 [80], 2 [90], 5 [92]	+	4 [72], 4 [89], 7 [88], 8 [79], 8 [90], 11 [92], 16 [80]	11/69 (16%)	No association
Reaction time measures	2 [77, 79]	+/−	34 [77, 79]	2/36 (6%)	No association
Speed measures	1 [92], 2 [90], 4 [88]	+/−	4 [88], 4 [89], 7 [92]	7/22 (32%)	No association

Coding: n/N number of significantly associated relationships divided by total number of relationships. # number of relationships 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), unknown conclusion (< 5 total relationships reported). Note: Relationships removed from data synthesis due to poor methodological study quality and/or high risk of bias included the following category: power (2 relationships [54])