Published May 28, 2023 | Version v1
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TECHNICAL TOOLS USED IN ANTHROPOMETRIC METHODOLOGIES

  • 1. Georgian State Teaching University of Physical Education and Sports, Georgia

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The primary objective of the coaches of any sports profile, experience and track record was, is and will be the possibility and reliability of selection of the athletes in early age.
For early sports selection, the genetic marker (morphofunctional characteristics remaining unchanged, irrespective of age, sex and external conditions), allowing the coach and team working with him/her to promptly, correctly and reliably establish the suitability of the individual intending to engage in given sports.
Anthropometry, its methods and technical tools for such anthropometric study (anthropometric tools) are simple, prompt methods, allowing the interested parties to clarify the recipient’s physical status, posture, and body proportions and based on the obtained data, attribute the somatotype to the individual under consideration, providing to the researcher complete morpho-physiological characteristics of the recipient. 
Anthropometry, as one of the best research tools, is easily available, does not require any significant financial expenses and allows determining of a somatotype in early age, data will be available to the interested coaches, allowing them a proper selection of sports for each individual.

 

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