Treinamento de estabilização central em atletas de triathlon: Um estudo clínico

Abstract

Triathlon is a dynamic sport which requires a high level of physical resistance, because of that, the core stabilization may play a crucial role in the athlete performance. Goals: Analyze the efficiency of core training in increasing the lumbopelvic stability in triathlon practitioners teenagers. Method: Clinical study composed by 30 triathlon practitioners teenagers, split in two groups and evaluated on their level of physical fitness and lumbopelvic stability. The intervention group has been submitted to a core training program. Results: The outcome suggests that the applied program didn’t provide any increase in neuromuscular control, neither on the performance of the group. Conclusion: The core training didn´t bring any important neuromuscular adaptation, and it supposes that it happened because the methodology applied on this training, on which was adapted to the necessities of the sample and it was need to differ, in frequency, of the prescriptions defined by the literature on this subject.