Field Evaluation of Paralympic Athletes in Selected Sports
| Autor: | V. Castellano, Yagesh Bhambhani, Barbara Di Giacinto, Annalisa Di Cesare, M. Bernardi, Emanuele Guerra |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Sports medicine Arm cranking disability sport Physical Therapy Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation intermittent and continuous sports Young Adult exercise intensity Oxygen Consumption aerobic fitness cardiorespiratory responses Internal medicine medicine Humans Aerobic exercise Disabled Persons Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Mathematics biology Athletes VO2 max Cardiorespiratory fitness biology.organism_classification Physical Fitness Exercise Test Cardiology Physical therapy Test performance Ventilatory threshold Sports |
| Zdroj: | Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise. 42:1200-1208 |
| ISSN: | 0195-9131 |
| Popis: | Purpose: The purpose of this study was 1) to describe the acute cardiorespiratory and metabolic responses of Paralympic athletes participating in the following five sports: Nordic sit skiing (NS, n = 5), wheelchair distance racing (WR, n = 6), wheelchair basketball (WB, n = 13), wheelchair fencing (WF, n = 6), and wheelchair tennis (WT, n = 4); and 2) to examine the relationship between field test performance and laboratory measures of aerobic fitness of these Paralympic athletes. Methods: Each athlete completed an incremental arm cranking exercise test to determine ventilatory threshold (VT) and peak oxygen uptake (V[spacing dot above]O2peak). Subsequently, field assessments were carried out using a telemetric system to measure the cardiorespiratory responses in their respective sport. Results: VT and V[spacing dot above]O2peak (both expressed in milliliters per kilogram per minute) of athletes competing in NS (38.3 +/- 5.76 and 51.0 +/- 6.92 mL[middle dot]kg-1[middle dot]min-1) and WR (35.5 +/- 5.96 and 48.1 +/- 6.35 mL[middle dot]kg-1[middle dot]min-1) were significantly higher (P < 0.05) than those competing in WB (26.0 +/- 2.13 and 36.9 +/- 3.70 mL[middle dot]kg-1[middle dot]min-1), WF (23.2 +/- 3.96 and 34.4 +/- 5.81 mL[middle dot]kg-1[middle dot]min-1), and WT (24.0 +/- 2.30 and 33.1 +/- 2.85 mL[middle dot]kg-1[middle dot]min-1). In the field tests, the average V[spacing dot above]O2, higher in NS and WR than in WB, WF, and WT, during NS, WR, WB, WF, and WT was 79.4% +/- 3.30%, 84.4% +/- 2.10%, 72.1% +/- 5.72%, 73.0% +/- 3.10%, and 73.0% +/- 1.91%, respectively, of V[spacing dot above]O2peak. There was a strong linear relationship between V[spacing dot above]O2 measured during the field tests and VT and V[spacing dot above]O2peak (R2 = 0.92 in each case). Conclusions: Athletes regulated their average work intensity during the field tests in the five Paralympic sports to approximate their individualized VT measured during incremental arm cranking exercise test, and this intensity was within the range recommended by the American College of Sports Medicine to improve cardiorespiratory fitness in well-trained subjects. In addition, performance of Paralympic athletes in these sports was highly dependent upon athletes' aerobic fitness. |
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