Fitness Potential of Air Forces Depending on the Motor and Morphological Factors

Volume 3, Issue 1 (2013)

Fitness Potential of Air Forces Depending on the Motor and Morphological Factors
Kemal Idrizović, Boris Banjević
Abstract: 
Research was realized on the sample of 80 men, soldiers of Montenegro Army Air Base, age 22-45, with the aim to determine the influence of motor and morphological dimensions to the quality of performing complex motor  acitivies. The assessment of the status of motor abilities was performed based on the realization and analysis of 18 motor tests, while the morphological status was defined based on the information received by measurement and assessing 16 anthropometric indicators. The fitness potential is defined by the application of polygons of complex motor knowledge. In order to define the influence of predictor motor  and morphological system of variables  to the complex motor knowledge polygon criteria variable (PLKMZ) the regression analysis was applied. The results of regression analysis show the statistically significant linear connection between the predictor system of variables and criteria variables. In the motor system of 18 variables, 5 of them show the statistically significant predictive influence on the criteria, while in the morphological system, the predictive battery of measuring instruments of 2 anthropometric indicators was determined.
Keywords: 
military aviation, motor abilities, morphological characteristics, complex movement patterns
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DOI: 
http://dx.doi.org/10.7251/838
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