Perfil antropométrico, rendimiento físico y hábitos alimenticios en deportistas de alto rendimiento de artes marciales mixtas en el periodo 2020 - 2021.

Abstract

Sports nutrition is a developing science that has become a fundamental part of all sport, mixed martial arts requires high physical performance in strength, endurance, speed and power, so proper monitoring and control of These athletes, being a combat sport practiced by weight categories, a weight cycling between competitions and influences on feeding habits is common, as well as a variety of methods that these athletes use at this stage to achieve weight loss. Feeding habits, body composition and physical performance play a key role in the athlete's performance, and poor control of these factors could affect their performance and health, therefore the general objective of this research is to determine the anthropometric profile, feeding habits and physical performance in high-performance mixed martial arts athletes in the pre-competition stage. The design used for this study is descriptive, with a quantitative, non-experimental, cross-sectional approach. For the analysis were used, physical tests, nutritional questionnaires and anthropometric formulas among the results obtained a significant difference is shown in the bicompartmental analysis of the athletes obtained by means of the BMI compared to other formulas, it is also was observed that 100% of the athletes had an imbalance in their diet in which 78.2% presented an insufficient intake of carbohydrates that together with fasting directly affected the performance of 69.6% of athletes.