ArticleNutrients2020
Pre-Competition Weight Loss Models in Taekwondo: Identification, Characteristics and Risk of Dehydration.
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- Rapid Weight Loss of Up to Five Percent of the Body Mass in Less Than 7 Days Does Not Affect Physical Performance in Official Olympic Combat Athletes With Weight Classes: A Systematic Review With Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in physiology · 2022Pooled it
- Integrative Nutritional Strategies for Performance, Recovery, and Weight Management in Taekwondo.Nutrients · 2026Review
- Acute weight cycling and hydration status in elite kickboxers: a repeated-measures field study.BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation · 2026Article
- The relationship between training load and injury risk in taekwondo: a systematic review.BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation · 2026Article
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- Injury Incidences related to Acute-to-Chronic Workload Ratios in Taekwondo: A Prospective Study with a 3-Year Follow-Up.Journal of athletic training · 2025Article
- The dual impact: physiological and psychological effects of rapid weight loss in wrestling.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Practical internal and external cooling methods do not influence rapid recovery from simulated taekwondo performance.Journal of exercise science and fitness · 2023Article
- Effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on weight loss of Korean athletes: changes in athletes' physical activity and eating behavior.Physical activity and nutrition · 2023Article
- The Preventable Effect of Taekwondo Sport among Cadets and Junior' Bone Mineral Density: DEXA Assessment.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Empowered, Yet Vulnerable: Motives for Sport Participation, Health Correlates, and Experience of Sexual Harassment in Female Combat-Sport Athletes.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Relative and Chronological Age in Successful Athletes at the World Taekwondo Championships (1997-2019): A Focus on the Behaviour of Multiple Medallists.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
Athletes use different combinations of weight loss methods during competition preparation. The aim of this study was to identify and characterize pre-competition weight loss models, which describe these combinations. The second aim was to determine if any existing model pose a higher risk of severe dehydration and whether any of the models could be continued as a lower-risk option. The third aim was to explore whether athletes who used different weight management strategies could be differentiated based on age, sex, training experience or anthropometric parameters. Study participants were randomly selected from Olympic taekwondo competitors and 192 athletes were enrolled. Active (47% weight-reducing athletes), passive (31%) and extreme (22%) models have been described. In the extreme model, athletes combined the highest number of different weight loss methods (3.9 ± 0.9 methods vs. 2.4 ± 0.9 in active and 1.5 ± 0.6 in passive), reduced significantly more body mass than others (6.7 ± 3.5% body mass vs. 4.3 ± 1.9% and 4.5 ± 2.4%;
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