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Warm-up practices in elite snowboard athletes.

Ben C Sporer¹, Anita Cote, Gordon Sleivert

¹Human Performance Laboratory, Sport Service MAPEI, Castellanza, Italy.

International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance

|February 24, 2012

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Snowboard athletes often face suboptimal warm-up practices due to logistical challenges and long delays before competition. This can lead to inadequate warm-up intensity and duration, impacting performance.

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Area of Science:

Sports Science
Physiology
Snowboarding Performance

Background:

Optimizing athletic performance requires effective warm-up strategies.
Current warm-up protocols in snowboarding may not align with physiological demands.

Purpose of the Study:

To observe and evaluate the physiological impact of current warm-up practices in snowboard athletes before competition.

Main Methods:

Observational study design at a national snowboard cross event.
Monitored activity patterns, core temperature, heart rate (HR), and time gaps.
Recorded athlete thermal comfort (TC) and thermal sensation (TS).

Main Results:

Significant barriers included environmental and logistical delays, with >1-hour gaps between warm-up and competition.
Median average heart rate (HR10) remained below 120 beats/min, indicating suboptimal intensity.
Athletes reported thermal comfort ranging from comfortable to slightly uncomfortable.

Conclusions:

Current snowboarding warm-up strategies exhibit significant gaps in intensity, duration, and structure.
Excessive time between warm-up and competition is a key challenge.
Further research is needed to optimize warm-up protocols for improved muscle temperature and performance.