Analysis of the status of the functional abilities of young football players using Conconi test

Abstract

Sport training is a complex and controlled process of the development of all those characteristics and abilities which are important for the Specification Equation for the sport given. In such a process it is utterly important to have a continuous insight in the most significant indicators of the state of physical fitness in order to enable the training control and the correct use of the intensity, means and methods. As a part of the training process it is necessary to undergo tests which are the means to isolate the parameter that is considered to have an important influence on the sport result from the whole competitive activity and to make certain correction if indicated by the results. Diagnosis of physical fitness of the football players represents the first step in creating, managing and controlling the process of the sport training. Based on the data gathered it is possible to set the aims and the tasks of the training process. Functional diagnosis represents a highly important segment of the training technology. By testing the functional abilities of the sportsman one can obtain the information considering specific physiological and biochemical reactions in the organism during the competitive activity, and the insight in the capacities and the values of those abilities eases and improves the selection of the candidates for the sport given, as well as determination of the effects of the applied training process. The issues treated in this study are precisely functional abilities and more specifically abilities of the young football players, i.e. contestants who, due to the structure of the competitive activity itself, face demanding requirements in a series of anthropological characteristics, where the functional abilities play an important role.