The Effect of Turmeric Consumption to VO2Max and Lactate Threshold

Abstract

Ergogenic aids is any substance or phenomenon that allow to enhance sport performance. Despite the list of possible ergogenic aids are much, it isn’t always considered as safe and legally utilize. It’s anticipated by making use of natural food as an ergogenic aids. Spices are the one of many kind of natural foods which has been thoughtfully considered as an ergogenic aids and the one is turmeric. Turmeric is a horticultural plant which contains cur cumin and it’s valuable to our body. The aim of this study is to figure out the effect of turmeric consumption which combined with aerobic exercise to VO2Max and Lactate Threshold (LT). 12 students (19, 7±0, 45) of Sport Science major batch 2014 became the participants in this study. Experimental study was used as the research method by using randomized pretest-posttest comparison group as the design. This study was divided into 2 periods, each period was completed in 2 weeks. This study applied 4-weeks-wash-out-phase in order to avoid the carry out effect from previous period. Turmeric was orally consumed in the dose of 2 capsules (@ 550 mg) per day during the treatment period. Cardiopulmonary exercise test (12km/h protocol) with gas analysis method was utilized as the instrument to obtain the data. This study revealed the different mean value between before and after treatment in both of variables with sig.>0.05. With those results it can be concluded that there is no significant effect between before and after turmeric consumption to VO2Max and LT.