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Int J Sports Med 2023; 44(10): 736-743
DOI: 10.1055/a-2038-3040
Training & Testing

The Impact of Sport-discipline and Sex on Physical Fitness and Bone Markers in Athletes

Ammar Nebigh
1   Research Laboratory Education, Motricity, Sports and Health, High Institute of Sport and Physical Education, Sfax University, Sfax, Tunisia
2   Higher Institute of Sport and Physical Education of Ksar Saîd, University of “La Manouba”, Tunis, Tunisia
,
Imed Touhami
5   National Center of Medicine and Science in Sports, Tunisian Research Laboratory “Sports Performance Optimization”, National Center of Medicine and Science in Sports (CNMSS), Tunis, Tunisia
,
Mokhtar Chtara
3   Unit Head, Science Studies and Research, Sharjah Women's Sports, UAE
4   Tunisian Research Laboratory “Sport Performance Optimization”, National Center of Medicine and Science in Sports, Tunis, Tunisia
,
Karuppasamy Govindasamy 
6   Department of Physical Education & Sports Science, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, Tamilnadu, India
,
Chandrababu Surech
6   Department of Physical Education & Sports Science, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, Tamilnadu, India
,
Rawad El Hage
8   Department of Physical Education, University of Balamand, Balamand, Lebanon
,
Ayoub Saeidi
9   Department of Physical Education and Sport Sciences, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj, Kurdistan, Iran.
,
Daniel Boullosa
10   INISA, Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul, Campo Grande, Brazil
11   Faculty of Physical Activity and Sports Sciences, Universidad de León, León, Spain
,
Cain C.T. Clark
12   Centre for Intelligent Healthcare, Coventry University, Coventry, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
,
Urs Granacher 
13   University of Freiburg, Department of Sport and Sport Science, Exercise and Human Movement Science, Freiburg, Germany
,
Hassane Zouhal
14   UFR APS, laboratoire Mouvement Sport Sante, Rennes, France
15   Institut International des Sciences du Sport (2I2S), Irodouer, France
› Author Affiliations Funding Information Daniel Boullosa received a Grant RYC2021-031098-I funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and by “European Union NextGenerationEU/PRTR”, and a productivity research grant (PQ1D) from CNPq (Brazil).
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Abstract

This study was performed to determine the impact of sex and sport-discipline on physical fitness and bone markers in young sub-elite track and field athletes. One hundred and forty-four track and field sub-elite athletes (78 males aged 17.8±1.6 years; 66 females aged 17.2±1.9 years) volunteered to participate in this study and were categorized according to their disciplines in endurance (EG: n=67) or power athletes (PG: n=77). A significant main effect of sex was observed for C-telopeptide type I collagen (CTx) (F=11.37; p<0.001; η2=0.10, moderate), for osteocalcin (OC) (F=8.58; p<0.004; η2=0.09, moderate) and for N-terminal propeptide of procollagen type I (PINP) (F=7.96; p<0.05; η2=0.07, moderate). The average CTx, OC and P1NP levels were significantly higher in males compared with females (0.05<p<0.001; η2= 0.07 to 0.10, moderate). In addition, a significant main effect of sport-discipline was observed only for P1NP values (F=10.16; p<0.002; η2=0.09, moderate) with EG showing higher levels than PG. For jumping and sprinting tests, the PG performed better than the EG. For the endurance test, EG had better performance than PG. Endurance and power exercise practices can increase bone formation markers (P1NP, OC), but only anaerobic training (PG group) appears to positively impact on male track and field athletes.

Key words

gender difference - aerobic - anaerobic - physical parameters - bone markers


Publication History

Received: 10 August 2022

Accepted: 17 February 2023

Accepted Manuscript online:
17 February 2023

Article published online:
10 July 2023

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