Heart rate response during a simulated Olympic boxing match is predominantly above ventilatory threshold 2: a cross sectional study

Abstract

The present study aimed to describe heart rate (HR) responses during a simulated Olympic boxing match and examine physiological parameters of boxing athletes. Ten highly trained Olympic boxing athletes (six men and four women) performed a maximal graded exercise test on a motorized treadmill to determine maximal oxygen uptake (52.2 mL · kg−1 · min−1 ± 7.2 mL · kg−1 · min−1) and ventilatory thresholds 1 and 2. Ventilatory thresholds 1 and 2 were used to classify the intensity of exercise based on respective HR during a boxing match. In addition, oxygen uptake (V̇O2) was estimated during the match based on the HR response and the HR-V̇O2 relationship obtained from a maximal graded exercise test for each participant. On a separate day, participants performed a boxing match lasting three rounds, 2 minutes each, with a 1-minute recovery period between each round, during which HR was measured. In this context, HR and V̇O2 were above ventilatory threshold 2 during 219.8 seconds ± 67.4 seconds. There was an increase in HR and V̇O2 as a function of round (round 3 < round 2 < round 1, P < 0.0001). These findings may direct individual training programs for boxing practitioners and other athletes.

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“…The duration of basic sports training of 13-14-year-old boxers is determined by a number of conditions and factors: preparing organism for systematic training sessions with regard to the peculiarities of adolescent's adaptation to muscular loads; choosing the most effective teaching methods, which stimulate the motor and cognitive activity; motivating to do sports consistently; motor characteristics, etc. (Demchenko et al, 2014;Kulikov et al, 2011;Platonov, 2013).…”

“…The specific features of sports training of 13-14-year-old boxers during basic training is determined by the need for discovering latent properties of the organism, which provide the adolescent's readiness for exercises in the chosen sports activity (Gaskov & Kuzmin, 2010;Demchenko et al, 2014;Khokhla & Pavlos, 2017).This is preconditioned by the focus of boxing on developing skills of resisting psychic, physical, and tactical impact of the opponent during a bout with a real threat of sustaining serious injury (Di Russo & Spinelli, 2010;McCrory, 2008;Unterharnscheidt, 2003).…”