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CASTANEDA TOVAR, Sergio Mauricio  y  CAIAFFA BERMUDEZ, Ninosca Sofía. Relationship Between Body Composition and Physical Performance of the Colombian Military Academy. Rev. Cient. Gen. José María Córdova [online]. 2015, vol.13, n.15, pp.257-270. ISSN 1900-6586.

Physical performance and body composition are key elements in the development of the operational work of the Army Military Colombia. The aim of this study was to establish the relationship between body composition and physical performance in students of the Military School of Cadets General José María Córdova a -correlacional sectional study with 51 male students were assessed was performed, all signed the informed consent, which perform the training process in Military Sciences in Bogotá. The characteristics of the population show that the average age is 19.45 years, height stood at 172.6 cm, body mass gained 68.33 kg, the BMI is at 22.97. Physical performance variables which was assessed by the Directive 300-7 of 2013 JEDOC were analyzed, evaluating test navette (9.7), the test Wells, the test bars (8, 4) and the test in one minute abdominal (76.7) and elbow bends (54.8). Body composition was determined by varying proposed by De Guimaraes resulting Ross characterizing the type of population with 2.0% meso-endomorfo, endo-mesomorfo 49.0%, 15.7% ecto-mesomorfo, 5.9% meso-ectomorfo tetra-comportamental model 27.5% balanced mesomorph.

Palabras clave : anthropometry; body composition; military; physical attributes; physical test.

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