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PART I
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background
There is an assumption that athletes experienced menstrual cycle will affect an athlete's endurance itself, are some of the symptoms experienced during menstruation such as cramps are caused by contractions of the smooth muscles, headaches, pain in the middle of the stomach, anxiety, fatigue , nasal congestion and irritability. For example menstrual symptoms commonly experienced during menstruation, namely; pain around the breast, migraines, abdominal cramps, increased emotion, and sometimes prone to depression when facing problems, so sometimes when exercising or undergoing high-intensity exercise program is not the maximum.
Symptoms during menstruation will greatly interfere with the activity of women, especially in sports that enough energy drain in the body, it is difficult for women who are menstruating to remain undergo normal activities with a variety of symptoms experienced, especially at the time was undergo endurance training program.
Thus the need to know how endurance athletes when menstruating.
1.2 Problem Formulation
Based on the description above background, there are some problems that can be formulated as follows:
1.2.1 Is there mestruasi relationship with an athlete's endurance?
1.2.2 How endurance athletes while menstruating?
1.3 Objectives
From some of the formulation of the problem can be described on the objectives to be achieved include:
1.3.1 To know is there any relationship with the menstrual endurance athletes.
1.3.2 To determine how endurance athletes when menstruating.
1.4 Benefits
The goal of understanding to be achieved that will produce benefits including the following:
1.4.1 Knowing about menstruation is there a relationship with an athlete's endurance.
1.4.2 Knowing how endurance athletes when menstruating.
CHAPTER II
DISCUSSION
Menstruation is a monthly periodic cycle will be experienced by every woman who has entered puberty. Menstruation is caused by the action of female sex hormones (estrogen-progesterone) in the form of a discharge of blood along with mucus discharge from the vaginal opening due to the absence of the process of fertilization of an egg by a sperm inside the uterus. In the female menstrual cycle an average of about 28 days, although it is generally accepted, but not all women have the same menstrual cycle, sometimes cycles occur every 21 days to 30 days. Typically, menstruation occurs on average 5 days, sometimes menstruation can also occur about 2 days to 7 days. Generally, blood loss due to menstruation is 10ml to 80ml per day but usually with an average of 35ml per day.
Endurance is not just the strength to survive in the midst of adversity. However, the durability of the guard in order not to lose the ability to grow and evolve as the situation allows.
Menstruation and durability, is there a relationship between them? Many people think that exercise on a wantia, especially during menstruation is very disturbing. It is also feared by athletes, whether with the performance of their menstrual disturbed, and could even degrade performance. It seems that menstruation had something to do with the endurance of an athlete.
The level of participation of women in sports activities accomplishments showed a significant increase. Rambahan to exercise "masculine" which has been assumed to be of sport by men, enough to make a conclusion that the essential equality increasingly apparent in terms of enrollment.
In fact occupied competitive sport female athletes are not only the dominant sport followed by male athletes in particular sports therein allow body contact, such as football, karate, boxing, judo, and wrestling. Their participation in some sports in contemporary times is very possible, because it is organized in Indonesia in particular, quite a lot of clubs in those sports.
The above fact shows that the wanitapun can perform excellent in sports that require high physical abilities. Although of course there are differences between men and women, often put forward expert Variety differences, among others; the real difference between men and women, the biological differences, differences in the level of physical activity, aggression, hemispheric dominance differences, differences between the sexes, socio-cultural differences, differences in ability, distinction expectations, achievement orientation and aspirations.
Here are the focus of the study is when an athlete was menstruating. Menstruation for some women give significant influence in the physical activity, but on the other hand menses become an obstacle in performing sports activities. Study periods of fa'al dimensions can be explained, that menstruation itself is influenced by the hormone progesterone that is in the woman's body. Menstruation occurs in women begins at puberty and marks a woman's ability to conceive a child, first menstruation is called menarche. Then when examined further, there are several cases, namely:
1. Each month the womb unfertilized women will menstruate which usually occurs between 5-7 days, but there are also women who experience longer periods, or bleeding more than other women.
2. Menstruation on every woman is different and even every month manstruasipun different depending on the various factors that can affect menstruation, such as differences in the menstrual cycle is influenced by several factors, such as nutrition, stress and age.
3. In adolescence or early menstrual cycle are usually not organized, can move forward or backward a few days. The more mature nenstruasi cycles more regular but still can move forward or backward a few days due to several factors such as fatigue or stress.
4. There are several symptoms experienced during menstruation such as cramps are caused by contractions of the smooth muscles, headaches, pain in the middle of the stomach, anxiety, fatigue, nasal congestion and irritability. For example, the author menstrual symptoms experienced during menstruation, namely; pain around the breast, migraines, abdominal cramps, increased emotion, and terakadang prone to depression when facing problems, so sometimes when exercising or undergoing high-intensity exercise program is not the maximum.
5. The symptoms during menstruation will greatly interfere with the activity of women, especially in sports that enough energy drain in the body, it is difficult for women who are menstruating to remain undergo normal activities with a variety of symptoms experienced, especially in is currently undergoing endurance training program.
At the beginning of menstruation endurance female athletes can be decreased, because at the beginning of the menstrual blood volume that comes out pretty much as well as decreased levels of energy. A recent study in Australia found that women not only become sluggish in the week when menstruation begins, but also burn less fat. The beginning of the menstrual cycle, estrogen and progesterone levels will be low so as to make energy and fat metabolism down.
Based on some of the above statement can be drawn the conclusion, that mestruasi cycle can affect the durability of a female athlete because the various physical and psychological symptoms experienced by women in different menstrual cycle.
At the time of menstruation a lot of factors that can affect the totality of athletes in physical activity. That is because at the time of a woman's menstrual experience a variety of symptoms ie pain, emotional instability and a decline in durability. Decline in durability due at the time of a woman's menstrual iron loss pretty much comes out with the blood. The volume of blood lost during menstruation ranged between 25-30 cc per month. This amount reflects the loss of as much as 12.5 to 15 mg of iron per month, or 0.4-0.5 mg per day for 28 days. Amount of blood loss during a normal menstrual period has been studied by several groups of researchers who found that the number ranged from 25 ml to 60 ml. At a concentration of hemoglobin (Hb) is normal, that is 14 g / dl and Hb iron concentration of 3.4 mg / g, the volume of blood contains iron about 12 to 29 mg and reflects blood expenditure equivalent to 0.4 to 1.0 mg of iron each day during the cycle.
While iron plays an important role in maintaining durability, and iron needed is 1 mg per day, the amount of iron that must be absorbed by the body each day only 1 mg, equivalent to 10-20 mg of iron contained in the food. Iron in animal foods higher absorption is 20-30%, while from vegetable sources is only 1-6%.
Function iron plays an important role in various biochemical reactions, including produce red blood cells. The cells are indispensable for transporting oxygen to tissues throughout the body. While oxygen is essential in the process of formation of energy in order to increase labor productivity and the body does not get tired.
Turns menstruation and durability that is very closely linked, at the time of menstruation endurance of an athlete to be affected.
CHAPTER III
CLOSING
From the description above discussion it can be concluded that while menstruating may affect the durability of a female athlete. That is because the various physical and psychological symptoms experienced by women while menstruating.
At the time of menstruation a lot of factors that can affect the totality of athletes in physical activity. That is because at the time of a woman's menstrual experience a variety of symptoms ie pain, emotional instability and a decline in durability.
At the beginning of menstruation endurance female athletes can be decreased, because at the beginning of the menstrual blood volume that comes out pretty much as well as decreased levels of energy.
3.2 Suggestions
Suggestions for every athlete should be able to know the right time to conduct endurance tests when she was menstruating, and know the dangers of what will happen when doing exercises with high intensity while menstruating. Because while menstruating endurance athletes will decline so do physical activity in accordance with the state of the immune system.
