Combined Somatotyping as an Informative Assessment of Physical Development During Training at a Military Medical University

Each of the typologies and M.V. Chernorutsky, and Heath–Carter has its own undeniable advantages, allowing one to evaluate the adaptive changes in the body of cadets when studying at a military university. These include the ability to assess the composition of the soma and the body shape of the individual. The aim was to study the dynamics of changes in somatotypes in cadets using a combination of typologies by M.V. Chernorutsky and Heath–Carter during their studies at a military medical university. Material and methods. The present study examined a coherent sample of 387 male and 27 female cadets. Applicants, cadets of 2 and 6 years of study were examined. Somatotyping was carried out according to the methods of M.V. Chernorutsky and Heath–Carter. Results. Hypersthenic applicants, regardless of gender, were characterized by an endo-mesomorphic somatotype. For male applicants, regardless of the classification of M.V. Chernorutsky, the greatest development of mesomorphy was noted, while in girls of normosthenic and asthenic body types, the predominant development of endomorphy was noted. Adaptation to studying at a university, regardless of somatotype, is accompanied by a decrease in the severity of endomorphy. This is typical for all somatotypes with the exception of normosthenic men. The transition from adolescence to first adulthood in university students, regardless of somatotype, is accompanied by an increase in mesomorphy, which implies good development of muscles and skeleton developing from the mesoderm. Conclusion. Thus, combined somatotyping using two schemes that differ in the basis for stratifying the sample into classified subgroups can be used as a methodological approach, within which one typology acts as a discriminatory factor, and the other as a criterion for adaptive changes.

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