Comparison of Selected physiological and Physical Fitness characteristics of Professional Women taekwondo athletes in Kiurogi and Poomsae Styles

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to describe and compare the selection of physical fitness characteristic of professional girl athletes in two Taekwondo styles: Kiurogi and Poomsae. Methods: among professional girl athletes (25-30 yrs.), 12 athletes were selected from selected Kiurogi and also 12 athletes were selected from Poomsae. Their body type were determined by Heath- Carter method and in 8-point skin fold method were used for body fat percent determination. Subjects performed Flexibility, Sargent jumping, agility, visual response, dynamic balance, beep test and Wingate test for determine their physical fitness and physiological Characteristics. Kolmogorov–Smirnov test was used as normality test. Independent t-test was used for statistical analysis at p≥0.05. Results: The findings showed that there is no significant difference in physical type, body composition, flexibility, visual response, dynamic balance, lower extremity explosive power and aerobic capacity between two styles (P≥0.05), but differences between two styles in mean anaerobic power and agility were statistically different (P≤0.05). Conclusions: Due to the result of this research in Taekwondo athlete the dominant body type is mesomorphy that have ectomorphy features as well. Also various physiological and physical fitness characteristics of Professional Women taekwondo athletes in both Kiurogi and Poomsae styles was not different significantly except in agility, mean anaerobic power and lower body explosive power. Although a Kiurogi results were in better condition in most evaluated parameters.