The effect of 8-week life kinetic exercises on the attention and motor skills ofwheelchair basketball players

This study was conducted with a total of 14 participants in the age range of 22- 44, including 7 individuals (N=7) from the 'Hakkari Physically Disabled Sports Club Wheelchair Basketball' affiliated with the Turkish Physically Disabled Sports Federation as the experimental group and 7 individuals (N=7) as the control group. In addition to the standard training programs, a life kinetic exercise program was applied to the study group consisting of 7 athletes, 2 days a week and 50 minutes each for 8 weeks. No exercise program was applied to the control group other than routine training programs. Before and after the 8-week exercise program, 'D2 Attention Test and Touching Discs Test from Eurofit Test Batteries', 'Blazepod Co Focus Challenge Reaction Test', 'Spot Shot Shooting Test' and 'Luy Up Tourniquet Test' were applied to both groups. The data obtained at the end of 8 weeks was statistically evaluated in the SPSS 25.0 program and Paiered Sample T Test was used to determine the changes in the pre-test and post-test measurements; Repeated Measure Anova Test and the Bonferroni Test included in this test were chosen to evaluate inter-week comparisons. The results are within the 95% confidence interval and values below p<0.05 are considered statistically significant. In addition, at the end of 8 weeks, the training of both groups was interrupted for 21 days and a follow-up procedure was created by applying the same tests again after 21 days. At the end of the study, it was determined that life kinetic training created a statistically and numerically significant difference in attention, reaction, upper extremity speed, and shooting performance in physically disabled athletes. Keywords: Attention, Motor Skills, Disabled People, Life Kinetics, Wheelchair Basketball.