Features of total body sizes and anthropometric torso sizes in female volleyball players of mesomorphic somatotype

Abstract

Determination of constitutional parameters that are inherent in highly skilled athletes of a particular sport can serve as reliable predictive markers during sport selection. But the last time an indisputable fact is the somatotypological conditionality of individual sizes that characterize the external structure of the body, and the visceral structures of the organism. The purpose of the work is to establish differences in the anthropometric dimensions between young women volleyball players of high level of athletic skill and non-sports young women belonging to the mesomorphic somatotype. On the base of the research center of the National Pirogov Memorial Medical University, we conducted an anthropo-somatotypological study of 127 female volleyball players of youth age (from 16 to 20 years) with a high level of athletic skill. Sports experience in all cases was greater than 3 years. From the database of research center of the National Pirogov Memorial Medical University was selected 140 practically healthy young women of the same age who were not engaged in sports. Anthropometric measurements were carried out using the method of V.V. Bunak (1941), somatotypological research – according to the estimated modification of the Heath-Carter method (1990). After the conducted somatotyping, it was found that 29 volleyball players and 33 non-sports young women belonged to the mesomorphic type of constitution. The analysis of the obtained results is carried out in the licensed package of Statistica 5.5 using nonparametric methods of evaluation of indicators. In the volleyball players of the mesomorphic somatotype, compared to young women who are not engaged in sports of the same constitutional type, we have found a significantly larger length of the body, the mass and area of the body surface, the height of the suprasternal, pubic, shoulder anthropometric points, chest cords, transverse mid and lower chest and sagittal middle-thigh diameters, intervertebral distance of the pelvis and its external conjugates. Relatively smaller in female volleyball players of mesomorphic type of physique was the thickness of the skin-fat folds under the shoulder blade. One can conclude that within the same somatotype there are significant changes in the anthropometric parameters, in particular total body and longitudinal, transverse, front and rear body dimensions, which is affected by the body of modern young women volleyball players with mesomorphic somatotype, under the influence of intensive loads.

Peculiarities of the chest’s size in female volleyball players of different constitutional types

“…It is so, because only in mesomorphs, which are characterized by a predominant development of the muscular component of the somatotype, a decrease in the chest girth during expiration and an increase in this case the parameters during inspiration indicates a great excursion of the chest. In our previous studies [20], it was also found, that mesomorphs female volleyball players, that there were a significantly larger parameters of the length, body mass, body surface area and another body sizes, than in young women in the same somatotype, who were not engaged in sport. Thus, we can conclude, that belonging to one constitutional type, does not provide a similarity of morphometric parameters of the chest in persons with different levels of physical activity.…”

The Peculiarities of the Body’s External Structure and Indicators of Central Hemodynamics of Volleyball Players of Different Positions

“…The functional state of the central hemodynamics enables the most rapid detection of signs of overwork and overtraining. The peculiarities of the human body structure of the athletes influence the manning of the team, the choice of the tactical drawing of the game in defense and attack, on the definition of training techniques [9,10]. Until recently, the morphological and functional parameters of the athletes' body of sports games were evaluated on average values of parameters: football players, handball players, basketball players.…”