Study of the biological age in male athletes of the school category/Estudio de la edad biológica en atletas del sexo masculino de la categoría escolar

Abstract

A study of the biological age of male school athletes was carried out. The objective of this work was to characterize the behavior of the biological age of male school athletes, 13 and 14 years old, in the sports of tennis, handball, athletics, judo and weightlifting, in the Eide (School of Sports Initiation) "Julio Díaz González" of Artemisa province, Cuba. In this non-experimental design, both theoretical and empirical research methods were used. Among the empirical methods were document review, observation, interview and measurement. These allowed to ascertain information related to the biological age of the athletes and their integration into the planning of the sports training process that is developed in the long term. It was essential in this study the application of Tanner and Whitehouse's method, adjusted by Jordán, of the radiography of the left hand (total hand). As a result, the behavior of bone maturation of school athletes participating in the research is identified.

Keywords

• maduración ósea
• edad biológica
• entrenamiento deportivo.