How high you can go climbing?

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How high you can go climbing?

maximum time an athlete is able to continue climbing to exhaustion may be the sole determinant of his / her performance to be. A new European study researchers at the University of Granada, the goal of climbing trainer design training programs for this type of sport is to help, shows that this is not the case.

until now, climbing performance indicators already low body fat and grip strength. In addition, existing research has been based on a comparison of amateur and experienced climbers. Now a new study breaks with 16 high-level climbers appeared with this approach showed that the time to be an athlete, an indicator only exhausted his / her performance.

Vanesa España Romero, author of the paper and a researcher at the University of Granada explains to SINC how “these findings can coach or athletic design of a sports and programs to help training that Spain continues the way this activity sports all over the world.”

Research , published in the European Journal of Applied Physiology, analyzed the physiological parameters that determine performance in this sport at the highest level. Participants, eight women (he degree of difficulty of a Route 5 to 9, with subtypes of a, b and c), with an average rating of 7A and eight men with an average rating of 8a, were “Expert Group” and “elite group”.

The researchers assessed the climbers with the vehicle testing body (height, weight, body mass index,% fat, bone density, bone mineral content), kinanthropometry (length of the arms, hands and fingers, bone density and bone density of the forearm) and assays physical fitness (flexibility, strength of upper and lower body and aerobic capacity was measured in the center of a character).

The results show that he was no significant difference between elite climbers expert in one of the tests, except for a time to exhaustion bone density were both higher in the elite group. “Therefore, a maximum time an athlete’s fatigue is the only determinant of performance,” says Li.

Vertical challenging workout

Sports climbing began as a form of traditional type mid-80s, and today is a sport in itself. International Federation of Sport Climbing now an Olympic sport inclusion. Must

increase the number of climbers and distribution of a fitness and competitions contributed interest in recent years, although there is little scientific literature on climbing effort.

The main research focuses on energy consumption (CPET, heart rate and blood lactate concentrations), the designation of maximum strength and durability of the local muscles climbers (dynamometry and electromyography), and establish anthropometric characteristics.

experts say is a fundamental feature of his sport climb “vertical dimension”, which gave them their unique entertainment organization in the region, as well as physiological perspective, the effect of gravity load movement.

In short, completed a successful rise, athletes have to their efforts as long as possible to get to improve their chances to keep the ultimate goal.

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