Key result
Systematic training significantly improved motor ability and morpho-physiological profiles, such as reducing 2.4 km run time and body weight, across Indian junior female rowers, kayakers, and canoers.
Why the study?
The study was conducted to explore possible training manipulations across three types of water sports using systematic training in junior female athletes.
Does systematic training improve morpho-physiological and motor ability profiles in Indian young female rowers, kayakers, and canoers?
Does systematic training improve morpho-physiological and motor ability profiles in Indian young female rowers, kayakers, and canoers?
Systematic training significantly improves motor ability and morpho-physiological profiles in young female water sports athletes.
May support training benefits in young female water-sport athletes; hypothesis-generating and requires randomized confirmation before practice change.
International Journal of Exercise Science 16(6): 744-755, 2023. Our study was carried on junior female athletes (22 rowers, 11 kayakers and 7 canoers) adopting systemic training to explore the possible training manipulation that can be implicated in these three kinds of water sports, might be in a different way. Several morpho-physiological parameters and motor ability profiles were measured by standard methods. Accordingly, body weight (kg), performing time of 2.4 km run (sec), 6×10 meters shuttle run/agility (sec) of female rowers were reduced progressively and significantly from Preparatory Period (PP1) to General Practice Period (GPP) i.e., from (59.41±4.84) to (52.23±5.34), (773.04±92.64) to (566.19±80.84) and (17.91±0.96) to (14.79±0.6) respectively. In case of kayakers, the time to cover 6×10 meters shuttle run was decreased from (18.42±0.63) to (16.61±0.79) and standing vertical jump (cm) was increased from (24.64±4.65) to (38.18±5.65) significantly from initial PPI to final GPP with considerable changes in between the phases. Body weight (kg), performing time of 60 meters standing start (sec), 2.4 km run (sec) and 6×10 meters shuttle run of female canoers were found to be decreased maximally from PP1 to GPP, following eight successive training phases from (58.56±3.98) to (49.88±4.39), (10.96±0.42) to (9.35±0.29), (802.57±32.40) to (632.57±57.38) and (10.96±0.42) to (9.35±0.29) respectively and also decreased considerably between other training phases. Standing broad jump (cm), standing vertical jump (cm), sit up/min, and push up/min performance were also found to be increased maximally from PP1 to GPP i.e., from (180.71±9.01) to (252.12±7.76), (27±4.16) to (41.14±1.86), (43±7.72) to (96±15.13) and from (34.43±7.50) to (88.28±4.85) respectively and also considerably between other training phases. Training as designed and incorporated in the present study significantly improves motor ability in all three groups. More discrete training can be prescribed for better fitness.
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Manna et al. (2023) studied Healthy junior female athletes (n=40). Systematic training vs. Baseline (Preparatory Period 1) was evaluated on Morpho-physiological parameters and motor ability profiles. Systematic training significantly improved motor ability and morpho-physiological profiles, such as reducing 2.4 km run time and body weight, across Indian junior female rowers, kayakers, and canoers.
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