Morphological Parameters of Physical Education Students in the Years 2006-2010

Abstract

The body construction of an adult person depends on a variety of factors. First of all, it is determined genetically - at the moment of conception every human organism receives a set of an equal amount of chromosomes from the father and the mother with genes that convey "instructions" about the developmental features of the system. The human growth is not a uniform process. It is characterised by a great diversity in terms of qualitative and quantitative changes and the intensity level of the processes in time. Ontogenetic development of a man is an ordered system of some specific developmental changes leading to the formation of human beings adapted to living in particular conditions and able to extend the existence of mankind. The direction of these processes is determined by inherited factors, surrounding environment and so-called behaviourism, which can be described as the behaviour of an individual in particular conditions.

The aim of this study was to determine the selected body parameters of 279 first-year students (179 men and 100 women) of physical education (stationary studies) at the Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz. The research of morphological characteristics was conducted in the period of 2006-2010 and its results were presented in tables. They document the changes in morphological construction.