RT Journal Article
T1 Sex differences in anaerobic performance in CrossFit  athletes: a comparison of three different all-out tests.
A1 Ponce-García, Tomás
A1 García-Romero, Jerónimo
A1 Carrasco-Fernández, Laura
A1 Castillo-Domínguez, Alejandro
A1 Benítez-Porres, Javier
K1 Ejercicio físico
K1 Entrenamiento deportivo - Aspectos fisiológicos
K1 Cuerpo humano - Composición
K1 Diferencias sexuales
AB Background: Athletic performance can be influenced by various factors, includingthose related to biological sex. Various scientific disciplines have studied the observeddifferences in athletic performance between men and women. Moreover, anaerobicperformance refers to the capacity of the human body to generate energy quickly andefficiently during high-intensity and short-duration activities. It is associated with theability to perform explosive actions and the capacity for rapid recovery betweenrepeated efforts. Anaerobic performance is a determining factor for performance inhigh-intensity sports and those with predominantly lower intensity but intermittentpeaks of higher intensity. One high-intensity sport that has experienced exponentialgrowth and attracts increasing numbers of participants yearly is commercially knownas CrossFit  (CF). Therefore, the primary purpose of this study was to determine theanaerobic performance differences between sexes in CF athletes in terms of absoluteand relative values.Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted over 2 weeks. Fifty CrossFit athletes (25 men and 25 women) voluntarily participated in the study. They weresubjected to body composition analysis and three maximal effort tests to measureanaerobic performance: a cycle ergometer test, a continuous jump test and a squattest.Results: Significant differences were found in all the variables of absolute peak powerand relative to body mass in the three tests. In values adjusted to lean and musclemass, significant differences were only found in the cycle ergometer test but not inthe other two. In mean power variables, significant differences were found in all thevariables studied, except for the mean power adjusted to muscle mass in the squattest. In conclusion, this study’s results indicate that differences between sexes inabsolute and relative peak powers measured in all test...
PB Peer J.
YR 2025
FD 2025-02-05
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/37752
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/37752
LA eng
NO Ponce-García T, García-Romero J, Carrasco-Fernández L, Castillo-Domínguez A, Benítez-Porres J. 2025. Sex differences in anaerobic performance in CrossFit  athletes: a comparison of three different all-out tests. PeerJ 13:e18930 DOI 10.7717/peerj.18930
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 22 ene 2026