Abstract des Autors

Two groups of elite wrestlers, members of the Polish National Team, participated in the study aimed at evaluating the relationship between blood lactate in response to Wingate test and anaerobic work capacity in 3 periods of an annual training cycle - after detraining (Test I), at the end of the preparatory period (Test II) and during the competitive season (Test III). The study was conducted in the 1991/1992 (Group A; n=11) and 1992/1993 (Group B; n=9) seasons. Blood lactate, measured 3 min after the Wingate test, did not correlate with anaerobic work capacity in tests I and II but were strongly correlated in both groups after Test III, performed in the competitive season (r=0.799 and r=0.810 for Groups A and B, respectively). When confronted with the training schedule, that high correlation was associated with an intense interval training and wrestling competitions while in training periods with predominantly low-intensity activities (running, ski-running and low-intensity wrestling) and a small interval component, the anaerobic capacity was not correlated with the post-exercise lactate concentrations. The results suggest that training influenced relative contributions of the aerobic and anaerobic components to the Wingate test. After low-intensity training, aerobic contribution could be greater and the dependence of working muscles on the glycolytic pathway smaller than after high-intensity training. Verf.-Referat