Descripción del somatotipo en estudiantes de danza contemporánea de la Universidad de las Artes del Ecuador en el período noviembre 2018 a febrero 2019.

Abstract

In dance the body masses of greatest interest to control are fat mass and muscle mass. The study has an exploratory, qualitative, non-experimental, correlationaldescriptive cross-sectional approach. The statistical test used was average and standard deviation, the research technique was kinanthropometric measurement, Phantom tables and the direct interview to the teacher coordinator of the major. The data collection instruments used were medical records, floor scales to measure the total body weight including the use of the height meter to obtain the size measurement. A total of 51 dancers of contemporary dance were studied in a professional formation composed of 16 men and 35 women with a minimum age of 17 years and a maximum age of 32 years. Through the anthropometric measurements the result was determined, said measurements reflect the somatotype of each gender, in males the Endo - Mesomorfia is dominant, where the skeletal muscle is dominant and the adiposity is greater than the thinness, valued by the same procedure the feminine, in this genre the predominant Meso - Endomorphy it means that adiposity is dominant and skeletal muscle is greater than thinness.