Table 2.

Significant ^a Spearman’s ranks correlation coefficients between training experience, ages, and anthropometric measures in young adolescent female artistic gymnasts and acrobatic gymnasts (training as “tops”)

ARTISTIC GYMNASTS (n = 10)
Measure	Gymnastics experience	Age	Body height	Body mass	BMI percentile	Maturity offset
Gymnastics experience	–
Age	0.97	–
Body height	0.74	0.76	–
Body mass	0.83	0.81	0.90	–
BMI percentile	ns	ns	ns	ns	–
Maturity offset	0.91	0.94	0.89	0.92	ns	–
ACROBATIC GYMNASTS (n = 10)
Measure	Gymnastics experience	Age	Body height	Body mass	BMI percentile	Maturity offset
Gymnastics experience	–
Age	ns	–
Body height	ns	ns	–
Body mass	ns	ns	0.79	–
BMI percentile	ns	ns	0.63	0.94	–
Maturity offset	ns	0.91	0.65	ns	ns	–

^a p < 0.05

Maturity offset - years from age at peak height velocity, ns nonsignificant.