Acute fatigue affects reaction times and reaction consistency in Mixed Martial Arts fighters
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Perceived aggressiveness predicts fighting performance in mixed-martial-arts fighters.
Accurate assessment of competitive ability is a critical component of contest behavior in animals, and it could be just as important in human competition, particularly in human ancestral populations. Here, we tested the role that facial perception plays in this assessment by investigating the association between both perceived aggressiveness and perceived fighting ability in fighters' faces and...
متن کاملThe sharing of radiological images by professional mixed martial arts fighters on social media
BACKGROUND Mixed martial arts is a sport that has recently enjoyed a significant increase in popularity. This rise in popularity has catapulted many of these "cage fighters" into stardom and many regularly use social media to reach out to their fans. An interesting result of this interaction on social media is that athletes are sharing images of their radiological examinations when they sustain...
متن کاملPhysiological characters in mixed martial arts
Mixed martial arts (MMA) is a relatively new sport and is a mixture of many different martial arts. Currently, study on the physiological characters in the sport is very limited. The present study evaluated the physiological characters in 5 active male MMA athletes at two occasions with one year between. Aerobicand anaerobic capacity were estimated through measurement of VO2max and anaerobic th...
متن کاملMixed Membership Martial Arts: Data-Driven Analysis of Winning Martial Arts Styles
A major analytics challenge in Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) is capturing the differences between fighters that are essential for both establishing matchups and facilitating fan understanding. Here, we model ~18,000 fighters as mixtures of 10 data-defined prototypical martial arts styles, each with characteristic ways of winning. By balancing fighter-level data with broader trends in MMA, fighter be...
متن کاملDiffusion measures indicate fight exposure-related damage to cerebral white matter in boxers and mixed martial arts fighters.
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Traumatic brain injury is common in fighting athletes such as boxers, given the frequency of blows to the head. Because DTI is sensitive to microstructural changes in white matter, this technique is often used to investigate white matter integrity in patients with traumatic brain injury. We hypothesized that previous fight exposure would predict DTI abnormalities in fight...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: PLOS ONE
سال: 2020
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0227675