The Importance of Paying Attention to Anthropometrics in the Selection Athletes

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to analyze the importance of the ideal anthropometric exercise so that it can support the effectiveness and efficiency of the training process. Systematic review method of 38 articles to identify problems, collect information, and conclusions. The review results that there are certain anthropometric characteristics in the form of height, weight, body size, fat in each volleyball, gymnastics, basketball, football, triathletes and cyclists and swimming. This shows that physiologically the anthropometrics of athletes support their best performance in each of the sports characters involved. The size of body posture is the nature of the athlete. During the process of exercise training does not have much effect on the proportion of body size. Conclusions that anthropometrics are very important in analysis to provide benefits in developing one's potential, especially in the performance

Construction of an anthropometric discriminant model for identification of elite swimmers: an adaptive lasso approach

“…Considering that season had minimal effect on our measurements ( Putra et al, 2020 ), and the cooperativeness of the athletes and coaches, each swimmer was measured only once in December ( i.e ., off-season) during the study. Measurements were taken in the morning, starting with a body composition test in a fasting situation.…”

“…Anthropometric characteristics are widely considered as important factors affecting sport performance ( Barbosa et al, 2010 ; Saavedra, Escalante & Rodríguez, 2010 ; Ugarkovic et al, 2002 ). Anthropometrics that matches the characteristics of a sport helps to master the movement techniques, shorten training time, and plan targeted exercise program to achieve peak performance ( Putra et al, 2020 ). In swimming, arm length and girth, or the ratios ( e.g ., hand-length/forearm-length and forearm-girth/wrist-girth) were found to be significantly associated with the performance of breaststroke ( Sammoud et al, 2018a ), front crawl ( Jürimäe et al, 2007 ; Lätt et al, 2010 ) or freestyle ( Nevill, Oxford & Duncan, 2015 ), backstroke ( Sammoud et al, 2019 ), and butterfly ( Sammoud et al, 2018b ), highlighting the limb advantage of longer levers.…”