The investigation of weight loss profiles on weight classes sports athletes
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2019
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Int Journal Applied Exercise Physiology
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info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine that weight loss profiles of weight category sports athletes. Materials and Methods: 502 active (371 male, 131 female) weight category sports athletes who have lost weight before the competition were participated as a volunteer in this study. The participants consist of Wrestling, Boxing, Weight lifting, Taekwondo, Karate, Judo and Kick box athletes. For the data collection the questionnaire of "Athlete Weight Loss Methodology and Effects Scale" was used Yarar et al.[1]. For statistical analysis descriptive statistics, arithmetic mean (x), standard deviations (ss) and percentage frequency (%) of subjects were calculated on SPSS version 20.0 (statistical package for the social sciences). Results: According to statistical analysis first weight reduction age was 14.72 +/- 2.45 year, average weight loss frequency in a season (time) was 2.62 +/- 1.49, and maximum weight loss ratio in a time was 5.33 +/- 2.72 kg. At the same time 69.52% of the athletes, lose weight in the last 2 weeks before the competition. Furthermore the reason of weight loss 33.6% was body weight is between two categories, 23.1% had good competitors in their category and 23% in order to be faster and more durable. Conclusions: We conclude that the athletes started to lose weight in early ages and many athletes lost weight short time before the competition
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Weight Loss Methods, Weight Category Sports, Diet
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International Journal Of Applied Exercise Physiology
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