![]() ![]() Anaerobic capacity is a physical fitness prerequisite of wheelchair track event sprints (up to 400 m), track cycling, swimming (short distances), alpine skiing, and is a limiting factor in all above quoted team sports. In particular, anaerobic power is a performance-related physical fitness component among many individual sports, such as for example, track events (short distance) and field events (throws and both high and long jumps) in athletics, para alpine skiing (for athletes with either physical or visual or intellectual impairment) and, among the team sports, wheelchair basketball, sitting volleyball and Para ice hockey (formerly called ice sledge hockey). In fact, performance in many individual and team Paralympic sport carried out by individuals with a locomotor impairment is considerably dependent on maximal anaerobic power and capacity. Upper limb anaerobic power and capacity are fundamental components of physical fitness in both able-bodied and Paralympic athletes. Following to the advancement of the Paralympic movement over the last two decades, the physiological monitoring of Paralympic athletes is now common practice and today the intensity and the energy expenditure of the practiced sport and the physical fitness evaluations are considered fundamental in the assessment of athletes with physical impairments. The Paralympic Games represent one of the major international mega-sport events in the early 21st century. Thus, it can be used to assess the anaerobic components of physical fitness in this athletic population. The WAnT_10s is accurate to assess peak power, is definitively appropriate to evaluate the alactic anaerobic metabolism and seems able to predict the mean power as traditionally evaluated through a WAnT_30s in male Paralympic Athletes. Finally, the mean power measured during WAnT_30s showed high level of predictability from mean power measured during WAnT_10s and the Functional class (adjusted R 2 = 0.906 P < 0.001). ![]() In the whole sample, peak power values were similar ( P > 0.005) in the two tests and the WAnT_10s mean power was significantly higher than that in the WAnT_30s ( P < 0.005). Differences between mean and peak power achieved throughout both WAnTs were analysed using a mixed-design analysis of variance and predictivity was assessed by stepwise linear regression analysis. Methodsįorty-four trained male Paralympic Athletes grouped by severity of locomotor impairment completed the WAnT_30s and the WAnT_10s with an arm cranking ergometer. To assess if a 10-s-long Wingate Anaerobic Test (WAnT_10s) could be used to accurately assess and predict the anaerobic components of physical fitness as an alternative to the traditional WAnT_30s in male Paralympic athletes. The comparison between the traditional WAnT_30s and a shorter version has never been carried out yet in Paralympic athletes. A shorter version might be helpful for both clinical applications and performance assessment. The 30-s-long Wingate Anaerobic Test (WAnT_30s) has some limitations in high-level athletes. ![]()
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