Aerobic and anaerobic threshold determined by specific test in judo is not correlated with general test

• Published in: Sport sciences for health 2018-12, Vol.14 (3), p.531-535
• Main Authors: Azevedo, Paulo, Oliveira, João Carlos, Zagatto, Alessandro, Pereira, Paulo Eduardo, Perez, Sergio Eduardo Andrade
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Adaptation; Anaerobic threshold; Exercise; Fitness equipment; Human Physiology; Martial arts; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Metabolic Diseases; Original Article; Research ethics; Sports Medicine; Warm up (exercise)
• ISSN: 1824-7490; 1825-1234
• DOI: 10.1007/s11332-018-0454-1

The purposes of this study were to compare and correlate the aerobic threshold (TH aer ), and anaerobic threshold (TH anaer ) measured during a new single judo-specific incremental test and treadmill test for aerobic demand evaluation. Eight well-trained male competitive judo players (24.3 ± 7.9 years; height of 169.3 ± 6.7 cm; the fat mass of 12.7 ± 3.9%) performed a maximal incremental specific test for judo mimicking the Uchi - komi drills and on the treadmill in different days. There was a difference between specific and general TH aer ( P  = 0.0006) as well as a weak correlation for TH aer ( r  = 0.32; R 2  = 0.1; P  = 0.2) and TH anaer ( r  = − 0.31; R 2  = 0.1; P  = 0.12). When correlation was applied to normalized data (percentage of peak load), we observed moderate correlation for TH aer ( r  = 0.76; R 2  = 0.58; P  = 0.027), but the same result was not observed for TH anaer . We conclude that there is a need for TH aer and TH anaer evaluation through a specific test for Judo.