The purpose of this Master thesis was to determine whether differences appear in muscle strength during early follicular, late follicular and mid luteal phase of the menstrual cycle and whether there is a link to the manifestation of premenstrual syndrome. The mode of determining was achieved via execution of bench press and squat, measured by the relation of force-velocity-power (F-v-P) and load-velocity (L-v) with a linear encoder. The research encompassed 19 (22,05 ± 3,08 let, 60,9 ± 7,0 kg, 167,0 ± 5,6 cm) women with a regular menstrual cycle (29 ± 2 dni) which haven’t been using contraceptives in the previous 6 months and haven’t had any menstrual irregularities. The measurements were executed within one menstrual cycle between the 1st and 3rd, 7th and 10th, 19th and 21st day of the menstrual cycle. On all encounters the women carried out the same tests under the same conditions. The starting weight of load on both tests was 10 kg, whereby the load of the test of bench press was increased by 5 kg and of the test of squat by 10 kg until the velocity of execution dropped below 0,5m/s. For identifying premesntrual syndrome (PMS) a questionnaire for determining premenstrual syndroms (The premenstrual symptoms screening tool - PSST) was used, upon which the test subjects were split into two groups (more pronounced PMS – B-PMS; less pronounced PMS – M-PMS). For each of the women the highest theoretical force (F0), highest theoretical velocity, (v0), incline of linear ratio line (SFv), highest mechanical power (Pmax) and highest power (1RM) was calculated. Via one-way analysis of variance for repeatable measurements (ANOVA) no differences were determined between menstrual phases in output variables of relations F-v-P and L-v, independently of the level of PMS manifestation. In addition, via two-way analysis of variance for repeatable measurements (multi-factor ANOVA) where we conducted the analysis in separate groups, no systematic differences were determined in muscle strength during menstrual phases, or the influence of PMS prominence and menstrual phases was minimal (ŋp2 < 0,3). Based on the results of this research we conclude that acute hormonal changes did not influence changes in muscle strength during early follicular, late follicular and mid luteal phase of the menstrual cycle.
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