Nível de aptidão física de judocas da categoria infanto e pré-juvenil da cidade de trindade

Abstract

: Introduction: judo, martial art practiced in the dojo, established in 1882 by Jigoro Kano in Japan, seeking to improve the techniques of defense and attack, as well as working entirely athletes, being named "Gentle Way". In addition to developing the physical, mind and spirit, it is necessary that the athlete has a good level of fitness, contributing to its performance. Physical fitness is a dynamic state of energy and vitality, being necessary to the sport, and that contributes to the athlete's performance. Objectives: To identify the level of physical fitness judo category children and pre-youth of the city of Trindade - Go Methodology: A total of 20 athletes, divided into: G1 (12.0 ± 0.82 years, male) and G2 (11.9 ± 0.74 years, female), with degrees of white belt to yellow, members of the Project CECONJ - Youth Family Center. To identify the level of fitness, we used the variables BMI, Flexibility - Bank of Wells, Aerobic Capacity - Test 9 minutes, Speed - Racing 20mt, Muscular Endurance - Abdominal an 'upper limbs and Strength - Flexion Arm. Results and Discussion: We can observe that the average BMI of the groups assessed are within a normal percentile, where only 10% are classified overweight. Flexibility in the variable the female group presented a value higher than the male, and 20 meters race, the male group reached better results, even though they showed significance. In our tests of 9 minutes, abdominal and push-up boys showed superiority with significance (p < 0.05). Conclusion: The level of physical fitness of athletes from judo is classified as satisfactory, in accordance with reference standards, which can boost performance in this mode. However, further studies are needed to identify the training efficiency by analyzing the pre and post intervention.