Determinación del somatotipo de jugadores de voleibol categoría pre-juvenil varones y damas pertenecientes a la Federación Deportiva del Azuay

Abstract

The present research is situated under the anthropometry field, linked to volleyball; having as a main aim the determination of the volleyball players’ somatotype in the pre-juvenile category, men and women, belonging to Azuay Sports Federation, all based on the game position they belong to. The research is a descriptive observational study of quantitative approach with twenty-two subjects from which ten people are male and twelve people are female, of age between fourteen to sixteen years old. For the measuring and obtaining of results was used the restricted profile protocol of ISAK (Stewart, Marfell-Jones, Olds, & De Ridder, 2011); the somatotype was determined by the Heath-Carter method, with help of Microsoft Excel Software in which was entered the seventeen measurements and obtained the values of the three components of the somatotype, to then classify them according to the corresponding game position. As a main general result of the research, was known that the main component that predominates is the endorphin, followed by the mesomorphism and ectomorphism which lightly variates according to the game position and the gender.