Estudo da correlação entre o % de gordura e vo² máx de atletas jogadores de futebol da categoria sub 15 no Estado de Minas Gerais

Abstract

Soccer is one of the most popular sports around the world today, and many young athletes dream with this. Soccer is becoming increasingly competitive and played between teams of high performance, in this way many teams have been concerned with the schedules of competitions and about physical and tactical points. In this advanced technological world, the area of physical preparation is one of the most demanded, collected and advanced inside high-performance sports environment. Around the beginning of the season, the coaching staff along with the training, come together to make an annual planning season where the trainer prepares its physical training program and then it is designed the macroclicos, mesocycles and microclasses training. The pre-season soccer team is a very important moment in an athlete's training, which the players are reconditioned for the next season. This conditioning has the physical, tactical and psychological need for a soccer player. One of the most physical skills used by athletes is the aerobic capacity, and this is very important during the soccer match and also in the recovery period of the athlete. This present study aims to analyze and to correlate levels of fitness of each athlete category under 15, throughout the percentage of fat and VO² max during the beginning and the end of a season. The results at the beginning and end respectively were: age 14.76 ± 0.44 and 14.95 ± 0.22 years, height 170.1 ± 6.09 and 170.9 ± 6.04 cm, body mass 58.52 ± 8.41 and 59.14 ± 8.34 Kg, percentage of fat 13.57 ± 3.65 and 13.05 ± 3.62%, time 10':21''± 0':22''and 9 ':''58 ± 0':28'', and VO² max 50.05 ± 2.28 and 51.66 ± 2.30. We can conclude in this study that there was a significant improvement in the percentage of fat and VO² max of the athletes, considering that as lower is the percentage of fat as better is the VO ² max, and this thanks to the training in a gradual and progressive way during the season.