Kettlebell Sport: endurance weight lifting. Description and analysis of the performance model

• Published in: Journal of Physical Education and Sport Vol. 20; no. 5; pp. 2659 - 2664
• Main Authors: Conti, E, Ceravolo, A C, Cavatton, A, Quarantelli, M, Ilika, O, Varalda, C
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Pitesti Universitatea din Pitesti 01.09.2020
• Subjects: Athletes; Biathlon; Body Composition; Body Weight; Competition; Conditioning; Conflict of Interest; Electromyography; Exercise; Females; Heart rate; Kinetics; Males; Maximum oxygen consumption; Periodicals; Physical fitness; Physiology; Randomized Controlled Trials; Repetition; Scientific Concepts; Sports training; Strength training; Ventilation; Weightlifting
• ISSN: 2247-8051; 2247-806X
• DOI: 10.7752/jpes.2020.05362

The study in question aims to analyze and describe the performative model of the kettlebell sport. The kettlebell sport is a weight lifting discipline in which the goal is to carry out as many repetitions as possible in the exercises of clean and jerk, biathlon (jerk and snatch) in the 10 minutes provided by the regulation. Four athletes of the agonist Umbria Kettlebell Training Center Team (3 men and 1 woman) were analyzed, respectively in the male biathlon (jerk 70+70 lbs and snatch 70 lbs), male biathlon under 18 (jerk 53+53 lbs and snatch 53 lbs), male clean and jerk (62+62 lbs) and female snatch (53 and 35 lbs). The investigation area is made up of three parts: anthropometric analysis, physiological analysis, electromyography analysis. The main results of the tests are the following: it is a form of weight lifting on aerobic regime (Vo2 max 40,4 ± 5,9 ml/kg/min, Average Heart Rate 162 ± 14 bpm, Max Ventilation 111,6 ± 29,6 l/min, End of test Ematic Lactate 3,3 ± 0,29 mmol/l) at which, in order to excelle and being able to perform, effective and efficient, an optimal technique is needed to make the best use of the available energy and organic reserves avoiding any over-use injuries due to the loads lifted. The analysis of the macrocycles' training in fact, tell us the kettlebell is a sport that requires high load volumes, at which the tonnage average per training is 19K pounds circa in the elite biathlon, 17K pounds in the under 18, 12K pounds in clean and jerk and 10K pounds in the female snatch (excluding auxiliary exercises in all cases). The electromyographic analysis show that the exercise which requires the greatest muscular recruitment of both the anterior and posterior muscular kinetic chain is the clean and jerk, while the snatching exercise, being unilateral, involves the crossed muscular kinetic chains. Further tests on a larger sample of athletes are needed to verify and eventually correct the assessments made of the study in question.