DOI: 10.36347/sjds.2020.v07i01.003

Pages: 12-18

The aim of the study was to assess the impact of a single basketball players’ training on the levels of selected salivary components. Thirty male basketball players, aged 12-15 (study group), and ten sedentary subjects (control group) were enrolled in the study. A routine training took place in an indoor basketball court. Unstimulated mixed saliva samples were collected in the afternoon in both groups, in basketball players twice before and after training. In salivary supernatants total protein, α-amylase, peroxidase, free acid sialic, cortisol, total antioxidant status (TAS), calcium and magnesium were measured, as well as salivary flow rate. Moreover, the basketball players evaluated the workout intensity using the perceived exertion scale (RPE Foster’s scale). In basketball players after the training a significant decrease in the salivary flow rate (p=0.047), and an increase in pH (p=0.011) and TAS (p=0.010) were observed as well as a higher output higher only of alpha-amylase (p=0.024), TAS (p=0.023) and magnesium (p=0.008). Compared the athletes before workout with the controls no significant difference in the salivary components was found, except level of peroxidase and output of peroxidase and total protein in the control group (p=0.007, p=0.003, p=0.049). Mean value of Foster’s RPE scale was 4.70±1.64, and most players perceived the training as “somehow hard” and “hard”. The Foster’s RPE score was correlated with difference in the pre- and post-training content of FSA (rho=0.428, p=0.018). Within the limitation of the study we observed an increase of the levels of pH, TAS, output of alphaamylase, TAS magnesium.