Análise de valências físicas em lutadores de muay thai

Abstract

The Muay Thai or Thai boxing is known worldwide as the art of eight weapons, and his strokes are characterized by great power and accuracy. This study aimed to identify the possible existence of a profile in the physical valences related to the fight, and for this have been proposed three different motor tests: horizontal impulse, abdominal and arm bending. The sample was composed of 14 athletes who had at least five years of training mode. The average age was 26.7 ± 5.6 years. The practice time mode was 8.5 ± 3 years on average workout. In the first test proposed motor, the horizontal jump meters in the average observed was 2.21 ± 3.2m. In the second, abdominal, athletes had a mean of 53.1 ± 4.2 repetitions per minute. In the third and last sample of the flexure arms had an average of 37.1 ± 14.2 repetitions. The correlation of the data showed that the longer the practice of sport in most years away from the horizontal and jump higher the number of repetitions of sit-ups. The sample had an average high power profile of the lower limbs, abdominal eminent resistance and low resistance of the upper limbs when compared with values of other types of percussion.