Peculiarities of Menstrual Cycle in Female Pubertate and Youth Age Athletes with Different Sexual Somatotypes engaged in Kyokushinkai-Karate

Based on the analysis and generalization of literature sources, as well as the results of the pedagogical experiment, the article presents data on the features of the formation and dynamics of the ovarian-menstrual cycle in athletes of pubertate and adolescent age who are engaged in such martial arts as kyokushinkai-karate. Material and methods. We examined female athletes of pubertate (n=23) and adolescent age (n=24) engaged in kyokushinkai-karate. The predominant sexual somatotype among female athletes of pubertate age engaged in kyokushinkai-karate was gynecomorphic observed in 14 (60.87%) athletes. This is mainly due to their insignificant sports experience or because they started sports after the menarche. At the same time, there were also 9 (39.13%) female athletes with somatic manifestations of the mesomorphic sexual somatotype. Results and discussion. The analysis of the dynamics of formation and flow of the ovarian-menstrual cycle in athletes of pubertate age indicates the dominance of some violations in the group of athletes who started playing sports before menarche and referred to the mesomorphic sex somatotype. It was found out that 6 (26.09%) female athletes of the pubertate age had clinical manifestations of premenstrual syndrome and 9 (39.13%) athletes of this group had algodismenorea. In the group of adolescent age 15 (93.75%) female athletes had mesomorphic sexual somatotype and the rest of the group had andromorphic sexual somatotype. The values of the ovarian-menstrual cycle duration and the periods of menstrual bleeding corresponded to the clinical manifestations of the hypomenstrual syndrome with phenomena of oligo-opsoniformes. Conclusions. Based on the analysis of the obtained data on the dynamics of ovarian-menstrual cycle in sexual somatotypes, it can be concluded that all the revealed changes in ovarial-menstrual cycle are related to the process of adaptation of the organism to intense physical and psycho-emotional loads in athletes of both age groups.