Relationship of body composition, force-velocity profile, and injuries in young footballers
Keywords:
body composition, force/velocity, sports injuries, young footballersAbstract
Introduction: In sports performance, understanding how body composition influences the force-velocity profile and injuries can provide training strategies aimed at maximizing performance.
Objective: To correlate body composition, the force-velocity profile, and sports injuries of young footballers.
Methods: Quantitative, descriptive-correlational, cross-sectional research, with a delimited intervention process (August–September 2024). Participants were 70 players (Age: 15.37±3.17). The sample was classified into under-13 (n=22), under-15 (n=22), and under-19 (n=26) categories. The technique of kinanthropometry (muscle, fat, and bone mass) was used, and for the force-velocity profile My Jump Lab 3.0 was applied.
Results: There is a strong correlation between speed and power (r=0.91), and a negative mean correlation between strength deficit and strength in the 11–15 age groups (under-13, r=–0.52; under-15, r=–0.62). There is a negative mean correlation in the 11–15 age groups (under-13, under-15) (p<0.05, r=–0.61) between muscle mass percentage and strength deficit.
Conclusions: The study of the three variables showed a negative mean correlation between muscle mass and strength deficit (under-13 and under-15), as well as the injury index. In contrast, in the under-19 category there was a negative mean correlation between fat percentage and power. Regarding bone mass percentage, there was no correlation with the force–velocity profile.
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