Abstract:
Constitutional features of the body of volleyball players can have a significant impact on sports performance and
are closely related to indicators of the cardiovascular system. The aim of the work is to investigate the relationships
between the tonic parameters of the lower leg rheovasogram and external body dimensions in highly professional
female volleyball players of different somatotypes. A study was conducted on 108 female volleyball players aged
16-20 years playing at a competitive level with sports experience of 6.361 ± 2.865 years. Indicators of the tone of the
shin arteries were determined as derivatives of amplitude and time rheovasographic parameters using the tetrapo
lar rheocardiography method. Anthropometric research was carried out according to the recommendations of P. P.
Shaparenko (2000). The Heath-Carter method (1990) was used in the somatotypological study. Statistical analysis
was performed in the “Statistica 5.5” program; Spearman’s method was used to establish correlations between
hemodynamic and anthropometric indicators. The results of our study also indicate pronounced differences in the
strength and quantity of relationships between rheovasographic parameters of the shin, which reflect vascular tone,
and anthropometric indicators in volleyball players with different somatotypes. More relationships were detected
in volleyball players of the ectomorphic somatotype; the smallest number of relationships was found in volleyball
players of the mesomorphic type. In volleyball players of all somatotypes, body composition indicators were the tone
indicator of all arteries of the shin were most closely correlated.
