Peculiarities of the somatotype of athletes with different directions of the training process

Abstract

The reaction оf the аtlеtеs' organism on the physical loads іs mostly determined by the peculiarities of their somatotype and plays an important role in the selection of sport activities.herefore we have used the Heath Carter somatotyping to describe the peculiarities of somatotypes of the athletes, representing 12 different sports (188 males with sport experience more than 5 years). The aim of the study was to compare the somatotypes of athletes with different directions of training process.