Study on the Physical Development of 14 Year Athletes of the School Sport Club Galati

Abstract

In Romania, among the studies that have show the phenomenon of acceleration in the morphological development of children (between 11 and 16 year), some of them were undertaken by Maria Cristescu and her collaborators (1992), pointing out the major influences of three determinant factors: economic, social and genetic. Meanwhile, many studies have been realized to determine the morphological potential of the population, the most studies population being the teenagers. Even if, there are authors who do not recognize the nature of crisis of puberty, it should be recognized the aspect of the transformation from child to adult – Dumitru, I. AL. (2001). Professor Mariana Cordun (2000), considers that the age of puberty is between 10 and 17 years, with large individual variation determined by several factors and she distinguishes three stages of development: prepubertal, pubertal and postpubertal.