(Department of Physical Education,Zhejiang University of Technology,Hangzhou 310014,China) Abstract: Having studied basketball game load characteristics related literatures published at home and abroad in recent 20 years, the authors revealed the following findings: 1) basketball is an irregular intermittent sports event in which high intensity explosive moves such as jumping, sprinting, contesting and fighting, as well as medium and low intensity working, jogging, and specialized moving, are alternatively made within a duration of approximately 90min; averagely a way of moving is changed in less than 3s; there will be a way of high intensity moving every 30s approximately; 2) loads born by players at different positions are different, the load born by the back guard is the heaviest; therefore, stamina training specialized for basketball should highlight position characteristics and indi-vidualized features; 3) there is no significant difference between loads born by players of different genders in games; their training methods and intensities can be mutually referred to; 4) the higher the level of performance of a player is, the heavier the game load born by that player will be. Key words: training and competition;basketball;game load;stamina training |