Abstract

With the use of anthropometric methods, an assessment of the physical development of schoolchildren who go in for physical culture within the framework of the school curriculum and adolescents of pubertal age who go in for swimming at the age of 12 to 15 years has been carried out. A comparative analysis was carried out in the growth of indicators of total and partial sizes in the process of individual development. In the compared groups, differences were found not only in the increase in the parameters of the physique, but also in the timing of the intensification of “jump” growth processes.