GROWTH AND PRACTICE OF WEIGHTLIFTING AMONG YOUNG MALE ATHLETES

By this study we aim to establish the relationship between the practice of weightlifting and osteological growth of young people. 303 male subjects participated in this study including 153 grouped in experimental group and 150 subject in the control group. Anthropological measures were taken three times spaces of 6 months. These measures concern the size, sitting size, the thickness of the wrists and the thickness of the femurs. The statistical treatment of the data using analysis of covariance revealed that the practice of weightlifting does not affect growth among young people. The differences were recorded at the level of the thickness of the wrists resulting from the joint adaptation has the technique of Olympic weightlifting movements.