COMPARISONS OF THE BASIC MOTOR ABILITIES, ANTHROPOMETRIC CHARACTERISTICS AND SOMATOTYPE COMPONENTS, WITH BASKETBALL PLAYERS AND NON-ATHLETES

Blerim Saiti, Shpresa Memishi, Bejtulla Emini, Agon Saiti

Abstract

Through regular practice of the sport of basketball, over a longer period, it affects the optimal development of athletes, improves the psychosomatic condition, and affects the anthropometric and motor dimensions of athletes. The purpose of our study is to compare the basic motor skills, anthropometric characteristics, and components of Somatotype in basketball players and non-athletes 17-18 years old, which are at the end of the maturation phase. The research was conducted on 100 males’ subjects 17-18 years, basketball players (B = 50) and non-athletes (N = 50). The pattern of the anthropometric measures is defined by ISAK (International Society for the Advancement of Kinanthropmetry), except variables: body mass index (BMI), body fat percentage (BF %) and lean body mass (ALBM), which is calculated according to the methodology During Womersley. For determining the differences between the two groups of respondents is applied T-test for independent samples, while for the establishment of the somatotype is used a method by Heath-Carter with 10 anthropometric measurements. Based on the obtained results of measurements from both groups respondents, was proved that: comparisons of the results in the motor and functional space of basketball players and non-athletes aged 17-18 years old, where we can reach conclusions from a total of 9 variables of motor space and functional, statistically significant differences result in 6 variables. In anthropometric measures we find statistically significant differences in 6 variables, in 11 no such difference was found. In the classifications of somatotype components, we can see that only in the mesomorphic component they have statistically significant differences, while in the endomorphic and ectomorphic component those differences do not exist. Based on our study, in the group of basketball players the somatotype component is the central type with the values 3.57-4.07-3.17 and the group of non-athletes represent the mesomorphic endomorphic component with the values 3.47- 4.96-2.67 to which they belong.

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