Estimation of level of physical development of young population of Penza region with application of a populationcentric method of somatotyping

Investigated features of a body build of 309 young men and girls of the Penza region in the age of 16-21 years. B.A.Nikitjuk and A.I.Kozlov method was applied to definition of type of a body build. The Penza youth is characterized by prevalence among young men of faces brachymorphic normotrohpical type, with distribution of hypodermic Adeps mainly below a girdle and on a trunk. Among girls there are people mesomorphic body builds hypotrophical type, distribution of hypodermic Adeps mainly below a girdle and on extremities is more often. In both groups on the average there are no surpluses of mass of a body.