Methodology for Evaluating Morphological Optimization in School-Age Boxers
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Introduction: This article was written after identifying theoretical, methodological, and practical shortcomings in the process of sports medical monitoring of school-age boxers. This is compounded by existing research that does not integrate anthropometric, biomedical, and physical indicators into the monitoring process, hindering a more accurate assessment of morphological optimization.
Objective: To develop a methodology, based on a theoretical framework for the medical monitoring of sports training, that allows for the evaluation of morphological optimization in school-age boxers at the Granma Sports Initiation School.
Materials and methods: At the theoretical level, the structural-functional, systemic, analytical-synthetic, and hypothetical-deductive methods were used. At the empirical level, the methods employed included observation, document analysis, surveys, expert judgment (Delphi method), and an experimental approach using a pre-test and post-test for the same group. Descriptive statistics included percentage analysis, mean, and standard deviation. Inferential statistics were used to compare the results obtained in the pedagogical tests where quantitative variables were observed, using the Wilcoxon signed-rank test and the Student's t-test, with SPSS version 25.
Results: The study examines the development of variables related to morphological optimization and indicators specific to sports medicine monitoring during the training process. This is achieved through the implementation of a methodology organized in stages that lead to an evaluation of morphological optimization, after being theoretically validated by a group of experts.
Conclusions: The proposed methodology contributed to the improvement of the morphological efficiency index, with the majority of the evaluated boxers falling into the excellent, acceptable, and moderate levels, where only two athletes showed stagnation.
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