Methods
Subjects
One hundred and twenty-four male (age 22.4 ± 4.3 years, body mass 75.1 ± 14.7 kg, height 177.1 ± 7.1 cm) and thirty nine female (age 22.7 ± 4.4 years, body mass 56.9 ± 8.8 kg, height 164.7 ± 7.0 cm) high performance athletes of three different Olympic combat sports volunteered to participate in this study: wrestling (n = 76), taekwondo (n = 62) and boxing (n = 25).