Abstract

SILVA BRICIO REZENDE, Rafaela; DE ALMEIDA BUENO, Marcio Luiz  and  PASSONI HIGINO, Wonder. Caracterização morfofuncional de praticantes do brazilian jiu-jitsu. Educ. fís. cienc. [online]. 2019, vol.21, n.1, pp.13-14. ISSN 2314-2561.

The objective of this study was to characterize the morphofunctional profile of Brazilian Jiu-jitsu (BJJ) amateur athletes, making a comparison by gender. 19 practitioners of the modality participated in the study (7 women: 21.29 ± 4.68 years of age, 25.84 ± 3.90 kg/m2 BMI, 22.03 ± 8.20% body fat and 12 men: 22 , 03 ± 6.04 years of age, 23.98 ± 4.08 kg/m2 of BMI, 14.53 ± 8.66% of body fat) for at least one year and with graduation level from white belt to blue. These were submitted to assessments related to body composition and flexibility, manual grip strength and lower limb power. After the evaluations, a comparison between genders was performed through the Student t test to sample independent (p≤0.05). The only variables that presented significant differences were those related to manual grip strength (right - 47.35 ± 8.77N and 30.28 ± 6.65N, left - 40.75 ± 8.45 N and 25.57 ± 5,94N) and height of the vertical jump (33.34 ± 4.98cm and 23.33 ± 4.30cm), being statistically superior for men. The other variables did not present significant differences. We concluded that men have higher levels of strength when compared to women.

Keywords : Brazilian Jiu-jitsu; characterize the morphofunctional; gender.

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