THE PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS AND EXPLOSIVE STRENGTH OF SCHOOLCHILDREN UDC 796-053 . 3012 . 11
The aim of this research was to determine the trend of relations between the system of body characteristics and the system of explosive strength variables. 402 participants aged 7 to 10 participated in this study. Seventeen measures for assessing anthropometric characteristics were applied and 4 tests for assessing explosive strength. Based on the obtained results on the relation of body characteristics and explosive strength it has been determined that there are significant relations of the two studied areas on the subsamples of participants aged 8, 9 and 10. The relations on the subsample of participants aged 7 are not statistically significant (p<0.05). When it comes to the trend of relations between the ages of 7 to 10 a permanent increase is evident, except for the subsample of participants aged 8, which shows a slight decline compared to the participants aged 7. Based on the cross-correlation of the two studied areas, it can be concluded that voluminosity and skinfolds measures appear to be negative (interfering) with tasks performance which highlights explosive leg strength in all the subsamples of participants.