Profile of Maximum Oxygen Uptake of Male Youth Athletes Sapta Kunta Purnama(1), Waluyo(1), Moh. Nanang Himawan Kusuma(2), Haris Nugroho(1)
1) Department of Physical Education, Faculty of Sporty Sciences, University of Sebelas Maret
2) Department of Physical Education, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Jenderal Soedirman
Abstract
The Cardiovascular endurance (CE) is one of the main bio-motor components that must be possessed by athletes to be able to support physical performance. In addition to being able to engage in physical activity for long periods of time, the cardiovascular endurance is also needed to help and speed up the reversibility process of physical fatigue after exercising. The profile related to the athletes endurance is very necessary to be held, which can be used for the process of monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of the training program that has been given. This study aims was to determine the profile of cardiovascular endurance for male junior athletes of Track and Field (TF), Taekwondo (TK), Karate (KT) and Sepak Takraw (ST). Methods: The method of study was a quantitative descriptive with cross sectional approach. A total sampling method was implemented to 60 athletes including of 14 athletes in ages of 14-17 years old for TF, 20 samples of TK, 15 athletes of KT and 11 athletes of ST who were prepare for National School Games. The test instrument for cardiovascular endurance used was a multistage fitness test (MFT), with quantitative descriptive data analysis in percentages. Results: The results showed that athletes of track and field (TF) had an average value of VO2Max ranging from 35.0-38.3 ml/kg/minute, meanwhile for Karate (KT) had an average value of 33.2 - 36.5 ml/kg/minute. On the other side, athletes of Taekwondo (TK) have an average cardiovascular endurance values ranging from 34.1-37.7ml/kg/minute and athletes of Sepak Takraw (ST) have an average endurance values ranging from 29.7-31.3 ml/kg/minute. Conclusions: The cardiovascular endurance profiles for Track and Field generally have good level categories, and so does for Taekwondo where in general also have in good categories. Meanwhile, the profile of cardiovascular endurance for Karate state in an average category, on the other side Sepak Takraw as generally has in a less category.
Keywords: VO2Max, multi fitness test, karate, taekwondo, sepaktakraw
