Judo Specialist | Strength and Conditioning | Sports Assessment | Sports Science | +15 years improving athletes performance |
Perspectives Judo is a highly complex sport in which the organization of specific training is a challenging task. Gaining an under- standing of the physiological responses to training and competitive situations is critical for designing appropriate training methods. Although the physiological responses to judo competition and to the most used judo-specific training modalities are fairly well known, improvements in training methods will depend on further well-controlled prospective research studies. Because the Olympic sport of judo has been through constant changes over the past decades (mostly because of improvements in athletes’ technical, tactical, and physical levels and because of changes in official competition rules), future research investigations must provide an under- standing of how these changes impact combat dynamics and, as a consequence, how they impact the physiological and metabolic demands of judo combat. Judo coaches must be aware of these changes as their impact on combat dynamics may require adjustments in training methods. #judo #bjj #martialarts #sportscience #strengthandconditioning
