Table 7.

Muscle power in Brazilian jiu-jitsu athletes (data are presented as the mean ± SD)

Athlete characteristics (n)	Exercise	Result (cm)	References
Male
State level athletes (n = 10)	Throw the medicine ball	428 ± 33	Nascimento [73]
State level athletes—white and blue belt (n = 5)		380 ± 48	Neto and Dechechi [110]
High level athletes (n = 14)	Countermovement jump	40.6 ± 2.6	Diaz-Lara et al. [106]
State level athletes—brown and black belt (n = 10)		41 ± 6	Andreato et al. [4]
High level athletes (n = 26)		34.0 ± 5.2	Diaz-Lara et al. [89]
State level athletes			Diaz-Lara et al. [20]
Novice—white to blue belt (n = 24)		29.7 ± 5.0^a
Expert—purple to black belt (n = 32)		34.2 ± 5.1
State level athletes—blue to black belt (n = 23)		40.8 ± 5.5	Silva et al. [111]
State level athletes—blue to purple belt (n = 22)		45.5 ± 1.3	Detanico et al. [114]
State level athletes (n = 9)^b	Vertical Jump	39.9 ± 8.1	Ribeiro et al. [36]
State level athletes (n = 9)^b		48.3 ± 5.9
High level athletes (n = 49)	Standing long jump	234 ± 22	Pietraszewska et al. [94]
Beginner athletes—white and blue belt (n = 7)		225 ± 25	Coswig et al. [21]
Experienced athletes—more than purple belt and national level (n = 7)		226 ± 12
State level athletes (n = 10)		237 ± 23	Nascimento [73]
State level athletes—white and blue belt (n = 5)	Standing long jump	234 ± 25	Neto and Dechechi, [110]

^aSignificant difference versus expert group from the same study

^bThe study included two different groups with athletes with the same characteristics