Relationships between somatic traits and physical efficiency of female volleyball players

Professional sport, requires the enhancement of theoretical and practical foundations of women’s sports training. Todays system of sports training is consistently being enriched by information delivered through studies on functional abilities of female athletes. Enhancements in practice of women’s sports training are further justified by the fact that in many countries of the world, participation of women in sport is still uncommon. The latter allows for making expectations, that in coming years, female sport will be full of landmark developments and new records. This study aimed at recognition of functional and structural characteristics of female athletes and presents an attempt to built theoretical and methodological foundations of women’s sports training in volleyball. Volleyball belongs to sport activities in which morphological conditions of its participants influence the level of sport performance. Recent changes in rules according to which volleyball matches are played resulted in even more obvious influence of somatic traits on final success in this sport. Thirty of the top Polish 14 – 15 year old female volleyball players were studied Correlative interdependency between somatic traits and chosen elements of physical efficiency at the introductory stages of training.