Physical and Physiological Attributes of Wrestlers: An Update

Abstract

Chaabene, H, Negra, Y, Bouguezzi, R, Mkaouer, B, Franchini, E, Julio, U, and Hachana, Y. Physical and physiological profile of wrestler athletes: a short review. J Strength Cond Res 31(5): 1411-1442, 2017-Wrestling is one of the oldest combat sports, disputed since the ancient Greek Olympic Games. This combat sport discipline has caught the attention of scientists since 1943 which is the date that matches the appearance of the first scientific research dealing with wrestling. The current short review aimed to summarize and critically analyze the scientific literature related to wrestling's physical and physiological attributes and to provide practical recommendations for testing/training together with new perspective and areas of future scientific research. Regardless of sex and wrestling styles, an optimal level of cardiorespiratory fitness is important to help sustaining effort throughout the duration of the match and to stimulate the recovery process between periods. With regard to the anaerobic power and capacity, the available studies were in agreement about their critical importance toward reaching high-level wrestling success since these variables have discriminated well between successful and less-successful wrestlers regardless of age, weight classes, and wrestling styles. Physical fitness parameters such as maximal dynamic strength, isometric strength, explosive strength, and strength endurance are closely related to high-level wrestling performance. However, flexibility level seems not to be one of the key fitness variables that help to reach high-level wrestling success. Overall, to achieve high-level wrestling performance, training should be directed to develop anaerobic power and capacity, aerobic power, maximal dynamic and isometric strength, explosive strength, and strength endurance.

The Effect of Wrestling Education on Some Physical and Motoric Parameters in High School Students

“…Wrestling education taken in order to achieve high efficiency should be towards developing anaerobic power and capacity, aerobic power, maximum dynamic, and isometric power, explosive power, flexibility, and endurance. (Helmi et al, 2017).…”

Force-Velocity Profiles of Elite Athletes Tested on a Cycle Ergometer

“…Regarding the second hypothesis, the force-oriented slope and consequently higher F 0 was observed in the Combat sports group compared to the Physically active group. Traditionally, grappling combat sports, such as judo and wrestling, rely more on a high force-generating capacity due to the close contact between athletes during the match and during groundwork action (Chaabene et al, 2016;Franchini et al, 2011;Tabben et al, …”

“…They were allocated into four groups according to their training history: Combat sports (Chaabene et al, 2016; including wrestling and judo athletes; mainly focused on developing power production at heavier relative loads; Franchini, Del Vecchio, Matsushigue, & Artioli, 2011;Tabben et al, 2014), Athletic sprints (including athletes form track and field sprint disciplines 60-400 m; mainly focused on developing power production at lower relative loads; Morin et al, 2012), Team sports (including athletes from team sports, such as volleyball, handball, and basketball; high levels of muscle capacities are desirable, but not always necessary since technical and tactical skills greatly determine performance; Apostolidis, Nassis, Bolatoglou, & Geladas, 2004;Gabbett, Georgieff, & Domrow, 2007;Massuça & Fragoso, 2013) and Physically active (including athletes from auto racing and shooting; without significant requirements for production of maximum force, velocity, or power). The subjects' characteristics are depicted in Table 1.…”

Some Aspects of the Assessment of Anaerobic Capacity in Combat Athletes

“…В связи с этим эффективность тренировочного процесса борцов можно наряду с привычными специализированными тестами оценивать и с помощью тестов, направленных на измерение максимальной анаэробной мощности. Поэтому мы считаем, что Вингейт-тест -объективный и максимально простой в техническом плане метод, позволяющий оценить уровень скоростно-силовой подготовки атлетов, который независимо от уровня мастерства будет адекватно отражать степень анаэробной работоспособности атлета, что непосредственно связано с его спортивной квалификацией [4].…”