THE STRENGTH STRUCTURE OF SPORT CLIMBERS

Abstract

The aim of this work was to determine the structure of strength of sport climbers. The study was conducted on 32 sports climbing competitors aged 27.47 ± 4.76 competing at national and international level of competition. Strength structure was determined by using 18 measuring instruments for strength evaluation (9 for the evaluation of the general and 9 for the evaluation the specific strength). In the hypothetical area of strength are isolated three significant factors that explained 85.83% of the common variance of the whole system: the factor of general and specific static strength (with common variance 43.53%), factor of general and specific repetitive strength (with common variance 21.23%), and factor of general and specific explosive strength (with common variance 21.07%). In this way the sports climbers strength area is represented as three-dimensional.