This document discusses a case study on implementing strength and conditioning training, nutrition education, and sports psychology interventions to improve the performance of a handball team from SK Parit Kadzi school. The interventions included aerobic and anaerobic training sessions, nutritional awareness meetings with parents, and psychological assessments of players. As a result of the 12-week program, the players showed enhanced fitness, muscular endurance, nutritional habits, confidence and the team achieved its best result by winning 4th place in the Handball MSSD competition.

1. NURUL FATEHAH BINTI NASARUDDIN
THE EFFECT OF FITNESS PERFORMANCE
THROUGH STRENGTH & CONDITIONING,
NUTRITION SPORTS AND PSYCHOLOGY
FOR HANDBALL PLAYER BELOW 12.

2. CHAPTER 1
 Handball is knows as a sport that requires a high level fitness performance.
(Speed and agility)
• Played by 7 players on a flat grass/court (40m long x 20m width)
• SK Parit Kadzi known as a school that has no field, yet they still has a handball
team.
• From previous Handball MSSD, it was found that SKPK fitness performance was
poor.
• 2018 – 2020 (lost in group), 2021 – PKP, 2022 (best 16), 2023 (?)

3. CHAPTER 1 cont .
 Problem Statement
 Musclur Strength and Conditioning need to improve.
 Nutrition before, during after need to be taken care of.
 Psychology state of handball player need to be observed.

4. CHAPTER 1 cont...
 The case study objectives are:
 i) To implement effective aerobic and anaerobic training to strengthen the
performance of handball players through strength and conditioning training.
 ii) To give awareness to players as well as parents to be more concerned
with eating and drinking before, during and after training or handball matches.
 iii) To provide players with a healthy and strong mentality through sports
. psychology sessions.

5. CHAPTER 1 cont...
 The case study issues are:
 i) The absence of a field causes training to strengthen aerobic and anaerobic exercises to be limited. In
addition, training that takes place on tarred areas has a high safety risk.
 ii) Eating and drinking quality before, during and after training is not taken seriously by players.
 iii) Players feel anxious and scared and not ready to play in a real game on a real handball field.

6. CHAPTER 2 – Research Background Solutions
 1) More strength and conditioning training for aerobic and anaerobic exercise to enhance muscular
performance in speed, agility and more.
 2) Food taken before, during and after. Players fatigue easily and cannnot recover fast after 15min play.
 3) Mental/Physiological preparation – sometimes handball player can be rough (pushing,body contact),
unconfident, unfamiliar with field.

7. CHAPTER 2 – cont
 To play handball, several actions are necessary, including hits, passes, jumps, blocks, pushes, runs,
throws, and dribbling. It is considered a contact sport with intermittent periods of high intensity.
(Saavedra JM, 2018)
 Research also shows that better muscular endurance, along with muscular strength, leads to reduced
risk of musculoskeletal injuries (de la Motte et al., 2017)
 Sport nutrition can give athletes a real competitive advantage when it comes to recovery from workouts
and overall performance during competition(John M Berardi, Ryan Andrews,2013)
 Exploratory modeling showed that self-confidence displayed the strongest and most consistent
relationship with performance(Lynette L. Craft, T. Michelle Magyar, Betsy J. Becker, Deborah Feltz, 2013).

8. CHAPTER 3 – intervention
 Issue 1 - The absence of a field causes training to strengthen aerobic and anaerobic exercises to be
limited. In addition, training that takes place on tarred areas has a high safety risk.
 Intervention method 1:
 i) To increase the oxygen capacity of my 12 players through aerobic and anaerobic training, I do a shuttle
run and bleep test exercise in the hall when the physical education class has finished at 9.30 am. This
exercise is useful to help improve the fitness level of my players. In addition, I have added functional
training and footwork training to help improve the mobility and agility of my players.

9. CHAPTER 3 – intervention
• Issue 2 - Eating and drinking quality before, during and after training is not taken
seriously by players.
Intervention method 2:
 i) I have held a meeting session with the parents of my 12 players to increase awareness about the role
of parents to ensure their child's food and drink throughout the training session up to the day of the
competition should be emphasized. This includes the rest time my players need to be observed when
they are at home

10. CHAPTER 3 – intervention
• Issue 3 -.Players feel anxious and scared and not ready to play in a real game on a
real handball field.
Intervention method 3:
ii) I carried a CSAI-2R test after friendly match and always talk to them after every training session to find
out their real feeling at that moment.

11. CHAPTER 4 – intervention outcomes
• To enhance aerobic and anaerobic among players to be familiar with the 15-1-15 match time.
• - run 20min-30-min-45min
• 2 weeks running (different pace)
• Outcome: the players can maintain their fitness in 15minutes game.
• -hit training (20minutes)
• 2 weeks training
• Outcome: the players can speed 10-20s, and change direction + received ad throwing ball
• -footwork training
• 2 weeks training
• Outcome: the players can master the footwork during sharp shooter + run/dribble ball

12. CHAPTER 4 – intervention outcomes
• To enhance muscular endurance and training
• - resistance training (20-30minutes)
• 2 weeks training
• 1) to strength deltoid, back, biceps, triceps, forearm
• 2) to strength hamstring, quadriceps
• Outcome: the players can throw far and strong, the shooter can do shoot a few times without tired
easily.

13. CHAPTER 4 – intervention outcomes
• To enhance awareness about food taken before, during, after training
• - parents conference (explain about important food for energy and recovery) – 1 hour
• Outcome: the awareness among parents and players enhance.

14. CHAPTER 4 – intervention outcomes
• To enhance confidence and build strong mental during training and competition
• - friendly match with 2-3 schools
• Avoid stressed environment (verbal abuse)
• Ask players/motivation word
• Outcome: the players has strong mental- not easy disturb by outsiders provoking
• The players become familiar with the field

15. CHAPTER 5 – discussion
• The strength and conditioning phase is very important in training.
• The training provided + awareness with nutrition sports + philological mental training can build a strong
and complete handball training
• The outcome for this case study is SKPK won 4th – the best for Handball MSSD
• This study can improvise for other sports.

16. References
• Saavedra JM. Handball research: State of the art. J Hum Kinet. 2018;63:5-8. Published 2018 Sep 24.
doi:10.2478/hukin-2018-0001
• de la Motte S, Gribbin T, Lisman P, Murphy K, Deuster P. Systematic review of the association between
physical fitness and musculoskeletal injury risk: part 2–muscular endurance and muscular strength. J
Strength Condition Res. 2017;31(11):3218-34. doi:10.1519/JSC.0000000000002174
• Lynette L. Craft, T. Michelle Magyar, Betsy J. Becker, Deborah Feltz.The Relationship between the
Competitive State Anxiety Inventory-2 and Sport Performance: A Meta-Analysis.Journal of Sport and
Exercise Psychology. March; 2013 25(1):44-65
• John M Berardi, Ryan Andrews. Eating Before, During and After Competition
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