Using Cross Training to Stabilize Muscular Fitness and Energy Fitness During Transition Period for Female Basketball Players

2 Abstract: Muscular fitness and energy fitness are the main components of physical fitness and separating these two components aims at better understanding for the training processes. If the player loses his/her physical fitness during the transition period, it is very difficulty for him/her to recover it in a short period of time. Cross training is a training method that includes various sports activities, planed and organized to help enhancing the physical level and physiological variables of the player using variation, decreasing injury risk and using motivation. It is used during the transition period due to the importance of this period. This study aims at maintaining the muscular fitness and energy fitness levels during the transition period for female basketball players through designing a training program using cross training during the transition period for female basketball players and identifying the effect of the recommended training program on maintaining the muscular fitness and energy fitness levels during the transition period for female basketball players during the transition period. The researchers used the quasi-experimental approach with one group (pre-/post-measurement) on a sample of 15 female basketball players (under 14 years) in Tanta Sports Club. Most important results indicated that using the cross training program during the transition period maintained the muscular fitness and energy fitness levels of female basketball players and that the variance rate in muscular fitness is slightly higher than energy fitness.