Zlatko Zlatev¹

¹Technical University of Varna

A LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF SOME ANTHROPOMETRICAL AND PHYSIOMETRIC INDICATORS OF STUDENTS AT MARINE ENGINEERING SPECIALITIES

Sport Mont 2013, XI(37-38-39), 287-293

Abstract

Health, as well as healthy lifestyle are and will be becoming in future increasingly topical because of the social, economic and ecological problems the present young generation is facing. The paradigm of man’s ecological development is based on the understanding of the interdependence and harmony between the individual’s physical, mental and personal development. With the development of the scientific knowledge of biosystems, such as human organism, scientists established that they are an organic unity of structural and functional characteristics that are at the same time relatively independent. In other words, human physique has structural characteristics determining the body shape and size, and in particular the shape and the size of the motor apparatus, but also the functional characteristics determining the biomechanical parameters of the individual’s motor activity. It is this motor activity, physical exercise and sport that are to play the most important social functions without which we could hardly imagine the prosperity of modern society, and in particular preserving and improving the individual’s health and efficiency. Considering the specifics of higher school and the constant dynamic changes in the social and economic life, the complex ecological and social problems in everyday life, as well as the decreasing motor activity of students, it was of interest to us to study the dynamics of the changes having occurred in some anthropometric and physiological indexes over a relatively long period of time.

Keywords

Longitudinal study, biosystems, physical, mental and personal development

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