Efeitos da aplicação de treinamento intervalado aeróbico intenso em atletas de water polo

Abstract

Effects of high intensity aerobic interval training in water polo players Even though water polo has been the first team sport included in The Olympic Games (Paris, 1900), there has been very little scientific information of water polo training, and practice demands and its related effects found in the literature. The same does not occur with swimming. A lot of information can be found in scientific publications. That kind of information is relevant to an efficient training program frame. As some training methods are similar to swimming and water polo, it is possible to find recommendations for employing swimming markers in water polo, which it is not well accepted by water polo coaches, since there are differences between those sports. Attempting to diminish this lack of information, the purpose of this study was investigate water polo players’ specific responses to certain interval-training loads, a common water polo training method. One group of well-fitted male water polo players (n = 10; age = 20.1 ± 2.33 years; weight = 78.9 ± 15.48 kg; height = 177.2 ± 7.98 cm) was submitted to interval training frame, called by VALDIVIELSO as high intensity aerobic, with 2 sets of 10 reps of 100 meters, all of them done in a front crawl style, 2 minutes rest interval between sets and 20 seconds between reps, maintaining a mean speed between 75 and 95% of 100 meters crawl maximum speed, measuring blood lactate (La), heart rate (HR) and rate of perceived exertion (RPE).The results of this study (La = 10.1 ± 1.87 mmol/l; HR = 167.4 ± 9.16 bpm and RPE = 18 ± 1.0) shows that this interval training frame has a higher demand in water polo players than in swimmers, but also give us some first markers to prescribe and control endurance’s training to water polo players.