2023, Volume 19, Issue 1
Conditioning and coordination motor abilities of combat sports athletes
Artur Litwiniuk1
1Faculty of Physical Education and Health in Biala Podlaska, Jozef Pilsudski University of Physical Education in Warsaw, Biala Podlaska, Poland
Author for correspondence: Artur Litwiniuk; Faculty of Physical Education and Health in Biala Podlaska, Jozef Pilsudski University of Physical Education in Warsaw, Biala Podlaska, Poland; email: artur.litwiniuk@awf.edu.pl
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Abstract
Background & Study Aim: Conditioning and coordination motor abilities (CMA) play a very important role in the process of sports training in learning a complex technique. Particularly in combat sports, including taekwondo, strikes and kicks performed in place, in a jump or in rotation, as well as combinations, allow you to create effective technical and tactical actions. Both of them have a significant impact on the sports results achieved in competitions. The aim of this study is the knowledge about level of conditioning and coordination motor abilities of combat sports athletes.
Material & Methods: The study was conducted on 30 person who have been taekwondo athletes for at least 5 years. Conditioning motor abilities (general physical fitness) was measured using the method recommended by the Polish Sports Association International Physical Fitness Test (IPFT) includes the following eight tests: 50 m dash, standing broad jump, long run 1000 m, hand grip; pull ups, 4x10m shuttle run, sit ups and bend trunk. Coordination motor abilities was measured using the Starosta Test. Body composition was measured device Tanita 545N, Statistical analysis was based on a Statistica v. 13.5.
Results: The taekwondo athletes differed in the level of physical fitness as well as somatic and body composition variables such as BMI, body weight, fat content, lean body mass, water content in the body and visceral fat. A relationship was found between the value of coordination motor abilities, the level of somatic features and general physical fitness.
Conclusions: In this research the positive influence of many years of training in the combat sport of taekwondo on the selected features of general physical fitness of athletes diagnosed by IPFT was observed. Similarly, this training influenced the level of global coordination, which should will contribute to the increase in special technical skills and indirectly to the results achieved in competitions. Both research using IPFT and Starosta's (coordination measure) turned out to be valuable research tools.
Key words: body composition, CMA, combat sports, physical fitness
