46 Section APPLIED ANTHROPOLOGY acteristics, the results of functional testing till total exhaustion, as well as 16-PF questionnaire of R.Cattell. <...> Results of the study revealed the advantages of athletes with more complex somatotype characteristics, which manifest a tendency towards wonderful activity economization of energy supply. <...> A comparison of the selected groups of athletes of different classes of professional success with the structural features of their personality showed the advantages of those with severe manifestations of refl ection and action mechanism of the unconscious (intuition and fast-action). <...> Key words: high-qualifi ed athletes, factor-typological description, different classes of professional success, more complicated somatotype Contact information: Timakova Tatiana, e-mail: timchita@yandex.ru. <...> OVERWEIGHT AND OBESITY AS RISK FACTORS FOR FALLEN ARCHES Tomбnkovб Kristнna, Přidalovб Miroslava, Gбba Aleš Department of Natural Sciences in Kinanthropology, Faculty of Physical Culture, Palackэ University Olomouc, Czech Republic Overweight and obesity are associated with structural and functional limitations, mainly in terms of fallen arches or other foot deformities. <...> Static fl at foot of the adults might appear at each age if an unbalance occurs in the rate of the applied load to load bearing capacity of the foot, for a long time. <...> The most common external factor is an excessive body weight. <...> The main aim of this study was to confi rm that the foot arch signifi cantly falls with increasing BMI values. <...> The measurements were performed in a sample, which consisted of 139 adult women of average age 56.67±4.80 years. <...> Body mass index (BMI [kg/m2 ]) was calculated for each person. <...> CSI values showed medium positive linear relation with BMI values (sin. r = 0.42; dex. r = 0.40; p < 0.05), which confi rmed that a foot arch signifi cantly falls with increasing BMI values. <...> Overweight and obesity have signifi cant impact on the fall of the foot arch. <...> Key words: fl at foot, BMI, excessive body weight Contact information: Tomбnkovб Kristнna, e-mail: tomankova@upol.cz, measured the foot dimensions in the widest and narrowest place of a plantogram to calculate the ChippauxSmirak index (CSI). <...> CSI values from 0% to 45% indicate normal healthy feet, over 45% – fl at feet <...>