Analiza comparativă și corelativă a relației dintre indicii antropometrici și ai compoziției corporale la fotbaliştii de 6-8 ani

Abstract

This paper aims to perform the comparative and correlative analysisof the anthropometric indicesand body composition indices in the football players aged 6 to 8 years. The research was conducted within Chiajna Medical Center, Ilfov, in thetime period 2021-2022, with 10 football players of 6-8 years old from the Concordia Chiajna Sports Club. Research indices studied: anthropometric ones (current and ideal weight -kg, height- cm), body composition indices (fat mass - kg, muscle mass - kg, body mass index – BMI). The body composition was evaluated using the TANITA DC- 360 analyzer. The statistical analysis wasmade with the help of theKyPlotprogram, using the t-Test parametric method(Paired Comparison for Means). The relationship between the anthropometric indices and the body composition indices was analysed by means of the Pearson’s linear correlation coefficient. The results of the comparative analysishighlight the following matters: increase of the anthropometric indicesrelated to the increase in fat mass and the decrease of the valuesby transformation into muscle mass; increase of the muscle mass and decrease of thevaluesby transformation into fat mass. The increase in strong connections by 22.3% ensures the existenceof the relation between theanthropometric indices(current weight, ideal weightand height) and body composition indices (fat mass, muscle mass and BMI) in the football players of 6-8 years old.