Profiling Combat Sports Athletes: Competitive History and Outcomes According to Sports Type and Current Level of Competition

Sports Medicine - Open

Table 5 Typical frequency training (combat sports and other sessions) without a competition coming up: differences according to current primary sports and current level of competition

		n	Combat sports sessions (1)		Other sessions (2)
		n	M	SD	M	SD
Current primary sport: F(6, 290) (1)= 5.52, p< .01; (2)= 6.91, p< .01.	MMA	30	4.90^a	1.61	3.00^a	2.21
	MT/KB	46	4.41	2.04	2.59^a	1.67
	Boxing	61	3.80	1.55	3.18	2.23
	BJJ	58	4.41^c	2.04	2.52^a	1.38
	Wrestling	43	4.58^b	2.05	4.58^a	2.25
	Judo	26	3.15^ab	1.26	2.65^a	1.72
	TSS	34	3.24^a,bc	1.18	2.26^a	1.60
Current level of competition: F (2, 294) (1)= 5.01, p= .01; (2)= 0.89, p= .42.	Amateur	115	3.90^a	1.44	3.06	2.11
	Regional/State	99	3.92^a	1.49	2.79	1.72
	Elite	84	4.64^a	2.49	3.14	2.18

Note: M mean, SD standard deviation, MMA mixed martial arts, MT/KB Muay Thai/kickboxing, BJJ Brazilian jiu-jitsu and TSS traditional striking sports
Superscripts indicates where Bonferonni adjusted pair-wise tests indicated group differences, with scores in bold indicating the highest scores in pairwise differences. (1) MMA and judo (d= 1.24, large effect) and TSS (d= 1.18, large effect). Wrestling and judo (d= 0.91, large effect) and TSS (d= 0.84, large effect). BJJ and judo (d= 0.83, large effect) and TSS (d= 0.76, large effect). Elite and amateur (d= 0.35, small effect) and regional/state (d= 0.35, small effect). (2) Wrestling and MMA (d= 0.70, medium effect), MT/KB (d= 1.01, large effect), boxing (d= 0.63, medium effect), BJJ (d= 1.08, large effect), judo (d= 1.01, large effect) and TSS (d= 1.23, large effect)
Two-way ANOVAs (current primary x current level: F(12, 275) were non-significant for (1) = 1.07, p= .39; (2) = 0.63, p= .81