The registration of morphofunctional parameters: its evaluation in children-karate athletes

Abstract

With the development of national and international practice of Karate-Do as a sport of combat in Cuba, and especially when practiced often by children, morphofunctional control is important for athletes, observing the response of the body still in the making during training and competition in a given preparation macrocycle, as negative results (psychological and / or physical) can be brought to a wrong direction to achieve a given objective competitive.

This research identifies and examines indicators for assessing the morphofunctional development of children, developing athletes in the category 10-11 years (weight, height, reach the arms and legs, heart rate, arterial blood pressure and respiratory rate etc.) This allows a better characterization of this sport at an early age and therefore, better health benefit of practitioners in the public interest and national sports.