Abstract

LEIVA DEANTONIO, Jaime Humberto  and  AMU-RUIZ, Francisco Antonio. Morpho-functional and Motor Characteristics of Members of the Universidad del Valle's teams. Rev. Cient. Gen. José María Córdova [online]. 2016, vol.14, n.18, pp.169-193. ISSN 1900-6586.

We are convinced that the National Student Sports System has to become a better instrument for the National Sports System in order to promote and articulate early detection of talents, specialize the practice and focus on priorities for state and private intervention in this area. Besides, political decisions should privilege processes tending to improve training, qualifications and competition levels of the best sportsmen and sportswomen so that they can become part of the associated sports system and participate in regional, national and international competitions. In that sense, at the Universidad del Valle the morphological, morpho-functional and motor characteristics of the players were defined by sport and sex as criteria for the selection and planning of the work and control during the training process, in order to assure the participation of the best players in the university sportive system and also in the associative sports system, thus hoping to achieve a true connection yet not known to the sports field in our country. In that sense, a total of 125 players of both sexes were assessed, 62,4 % men and 37,6% women, and selected randomly from 12 different sports making part of the teams of the university according to the files kept by the CDU USC (University Sports Center). Methods used for the study were: anthropometric measures defined by the ISAK method, the percentage of body fat and muscle mass were defined by bioimpedance using a Tanita scale TBF -310 (±0.1 kg), the speed was measured with the sprint speed test over 30 meters, the lower extremity power was measured with the Abalkov test (ABK), the aerobic power assessment was done with the Leger test, and the agility was measured with the Illinois agility test. Main components analysis showed that four factors explain 89% of the total dispersion in women, where the first factor corresponds to 1% of fat, muscle percentage and time on the 30 meters run; the second factor is related to distances and body mass, the third to agility and the body-mass index, and the fourth to the maximum aerobic power and the anaerobic alactic power of lower limbs. For men, a better association was observed between factors and different sportive modalities. The first factor represents mass and muscle percentage and it is associated with sports such as athletics, indoor soccer and soccer; the second factor is related to anaerobic alactic power and the size, and finally, the third factor is associated to the aerobic power, the agility and the body-mass index. Measure analysis did not show significant differences among sports, except for the 30 m run. For this reason assessment tables were made for anthropometric and physical condition variables by gender, unifying in one table classifications for individual and collective sports.

Keywords : anthropometry; assessment tables; PCA; physical field tests; University sports.

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