title: Morphological characteristics of Street Workout practitioners.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The determination of the morphological characteristics of the most popular sports has allowed the evaluation and comparison between athletes, which has helped to improve their performance. The Street Workout is an emerging sport based on calisthenics, which recently has become popular. Despite its popularization, neither the morphologic profile nor the morphologic characteristics of Street Workout athletes has been determined.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  Determine the profile and morphological characteristics of Street-Workout athletes, through anthropometry.
  
  
  METHODS
  Fourteen athletes (22.7 ± 3.26 years) were recruited from the National Calisthenics Tournament 2015 in Chile. The athletes were evaluated following the protocol of the International Society for the Advancement of Kinanthropometry to determine the somatotype, body composition, as well as indices of body composition such as body mass index, waist to hip ratio, waist to height ratio, fat/muscle mass and muscle/bone mass indexes.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Street Workout practitioners presented a balanced-mesomorphic somatotype, a low fat mass and a high muscular development, with upper arms and trunk predominance. Regarding body composition indices, the values obtained allow us to classify them as a low-risk population of chronic non-communicable diseases.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The present study sets a first antecedent of the morphological characteristics of Street Workout, determining that the Street Workout athletes presented balanced-mesomorphic somatotype and were classified as a healthy and athletic sample by their body composition indexes.
authors.affiliation: Laboratorio de Antropología Física y Anatomía Humana. Instituto de Biología. Facultad de Ciencias. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso. Chile. j.sanchez@outlook.cl.
authors.forename: Javier
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sanchez-Martinez
authors.forename: Paula
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Plaza
authors.forename: Alberto
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Araneda
authors.forename: Patricio
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Sánchez
authors.forename: Atilio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Almagiâ
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D056352:Athletes; D001823:Body Composition; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D064797:Physical Conditioning, Human; D013008:Somatotypes; D013177:Sports; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Calisthenics.  Anthropometry.  Somatotype. Body  composition. Sport.