Abstract

Diabetes Mellitus type 1 (DM1) is a chronic disease, whose treatment is based on 4 fundamental pillars: insulin therapy, self-control, healthy eating and physical activity. The literature suggests that diabetes mellitus type 2 is the aerobic type, because it is hypoglycaemic, however due to the difference in treatment in DM1, the question arises in relation to the effects of exercise with anaerobic predominance in the metabolic control of a person with DM1. Objective: to evaluate the effect of Taekwondo training W.T.F. on the glycemic control of people with diabetes mellitus type 1 of 13 and 14 years of a Taekwondo school in Concepción, Chile, 2016-2017. Methodology: quantitative approach research, a Quasi-experimental descriptive design in a group, pre-test type, post-test, with a sampling of non-probabilistic type, Results: Taekwondo training W.T.F. with anaerobic predominance, it did not significantly affect the glycemic variability pre- and post-training and in conjunction with this, it generated a decrease in the glycosylated hemoglobin of all the subjects who underwent surgery.