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Postpractice neuromuscular performance changes in 3x3 professional female basketball players 2025 http://ezaposleni.singidunum.ac.rs/rest/sciNaucniRezultati/oai/record/2/11393 https://journals.lww.com/nsca-jscr/abstract/2025/05000/postpractice_neuromuscular_performance_changes_in.25.aspx?context=latestarticles Cabarkapa, D. Cabarkapa, D.V. A. Batra Fry, A.C. The purpose of this investigation was to examine changes in lower body neuromuscular performance characteristics across multiple testing time points within a cohort of professional 3 × 3 female basketball players. Ten athletes volunteered to participate in this study (x̄ ± SD; age = 29.1 ± 4.3 years; height = 181.4 ± 7.0 cm; body mass = 77.4 ± 6.2 kg). Each athlete completed 3 countermovement vertical jumps while standing on a portable force plate system on 4 different occasions: before team practice, immediately postpractice, and the next morning and afternoon. Twenty-two force–time metrics were analyzed, 8 within braking and propulsive and 2 within landing phases of the jumping motion, including 4 performance metrics. Repeated measures analysis of variance was used to examine statistically significant differences (p < 0.05). The findings reveal an absence of significant changes in all force–time metrics of interest pre–post practice. However, a notable decrease in jump height (−5.8%), average and peak propulsive force (−4.3% and −4.7%), propulsive net impulse (−3.5%), average and peak propulsive power (−6.1% and −6.0%), and reactive strength index modified (−11.8%) was observed the following morning when compared with baseline measurements. The reactive strength index modified was shown to be the most sensitive metric in detecting fatigue-induced changes in athletes' performance, because it experienced the largest drop between these 2 testing time points (p = 0.011; g = 0.727). Also, the observed performance suppression disappeared by the afternoon training session because all of the aforementioned force–time metrics returned to the baseline levels, indicating that the athletes were adequately recovered to participate in team training activities. article 10.1519/JSC.0000000000005092 39 5 e706 e710 1064-8011 JOURNAL OF STRENGTH AND CONDITIONING RESEARCH