Examination of children’s body composition and biomotoric features which attended summer football schools

The purpose of the study is to examine body composition and biomotoric specifications of subjects who attended the football program for 8 weeks, 3 days a week. In the applied study, 50 subjects were chosen occasionally and voluntarily out of 125 football players. This study was applied on 8-13 aged male football players who attended summer football school in city of Gaziantep. Pre examination of the group was 1 week before 8 week training program, and post examination was 1 week after 8 week training program. Acquired data were analyzed with SPSS for Windows 16.0 Package software. According to pre and post training program physical and physiological examination, height, weight, Body Mass Index (BMI), body fat ratio, hand length, total arm length, head circumference, shoulder circumference, waist circumference, hip circumference, biceps circumference, front arm circumference, calf circumference, shoulder width, elbow width, hip width, hip width, knee width, flexibility measures, hand grip strength (right and left hand) measures, standing long jump, 1 minute shuttle test measures, resting hearth rate (RHR), maximal oxygen consumption (VO2 Max) and anaerobic power measures were found p 0.05 level significance. As a result; there were advancements on physical, anthropometric and physiological values of subjects who attended 8 week summer football school.