Hubungan antara karakteristik atlet, tingkat kecukupan gizi, dan status gizi dengan tingkat kebugaran atlet sepakbola di SMA Ragunan Jakarta Selatan

Abstract

Football game is one of the most popular sport in the world. This game requires the endurance of the heart-lung capacity both to desaibe the activity continuously with a Jong time without experiencing fatigue. One efforl to obtain physical endurance (fitness level) is a good nutrition in accordance with the needs of athletes that can be adequate nutnents to perform activities. Nutnent intake according to the needs of football athletes are able to make an athlete has a normal nutritional status that will have a good level of fitness. This study aims to determine characteristics of athletes, level of nutritional adequacy, nutritional status, and fitness level of football athletes in SMA Ragunan, South Jakarta. The study was conducted in May to June 2009 by using cross-sectional study design. The number of samples is 22 football athletes selected by using purposive sampling. The data obtained were analyzed using Pearson product moment corellation test, Spearman core//ation test, and ANOVA test The results of this study include statistical tests between the characteristics of athletes with fitness level (VO2 max) is there no relationship between the age of football athletes with fitness level (VO2 max) (p> 0.05, r = 0187), ANOVA test results showed there was no real difference between the position of athletes playing football with fitness level (VO2 max) (p> 0.05), and there is no relationship between body fat percentage with fitness level (VO2 max) (p> 0.05, r = 0401). For statistical test between nutritional status with fitness level (VO2 max) is there is no relationship between the nutritional status of fitness level (VO2 max) (p> 0. 05, r = -0275). For statistical test between the level of nutritional adequacy with fitness level (VO2 max) is the relationship between the level of energy sufficiency by fitness level (VO2 max) (p <0.05, r = 0472). Based on the results of this research can be seen that the level of adequacy of energy has an imporlant relationship with a fitness level that is recommended to maintain adequate nutrition (energy) athletes by consuming food sources of energy and protein. In addition, football athletes should increase the consumption of food containing other nutnents and supplement such as calci_um, iron, vitamin A, vitamin C, and vitamin B which has an important role in energy metabolism.