(Teaching and Research Section of Anatomy and Physiology,Capital Institute of Physical Education,Beijing 100088,China) Abstract: By studying a great deal of scientific literature on the constitutional characteristics of the retarded, the author compared and analyzed such characteristics of the Tang’s retarded and common retarded as physical stamina condition, muscle strength and balance capacity, bone density and cardiac chronotropic incompetence, and revealed the following findings: such indexes of the retarded as maximum oxygen intake, muscle strength and balance capac-ity of lower limbs, bone density and maximum heart rate during exercising are all lower than those of healthy peo-ple; the said indexes of the Tang’s retarded are all lower than those of the common retarded. Key words: the common retarded;the Tang’s retarded;constitutional characteristics;overview |