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Skinfold Sum: Reference Values for Top Athletes

2012

Las determinaciones de los pliegues subcutaneos de diferentes zonas corporales son utilizadas ocasionalmente en ecuaciones predictivas para calcular la masa grasa. Este es un parametro critico que condiciona el optimo rendimiento deportivo. No existen valores de referencia de pliegues subcutaneos en atletas de elite. Por tanto, el principal objetivo de este estudio es presentar valores de referencia de pliegues subcutaneos de una amplia poblacion de atletas. Los pliegues tricipital, subescapular, suprailiaco, abdominal, muslo y pierna fueron medidos de acuerdo a la normativa ISAK (Sociedad Internacional para el Avance de la Cineantropometria) en 2500 atletas. La suma de los seis pliegues as…

AnthropometryBody segmentsBody fatReference valuesmedia_common.quotation_subjectSkinfoldsArtAnatomyhuman activitiesHumanitiesSportsmedia_commonInternational Journal of Morphology
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A tailored telephone and email based exercise intervention induced reductions in various measures of body composition in physically inactive adults: …

2018

Obesity prevalence has increased the past decades and has become a serious public health problem. The aim of this six-month assessor-blinded, parallel-group randomized controlled trial was to assess the effect of a tailored telephone and email-based exercise intervention on various measures of body composition in a sample of apparently healthy and physically inactive adults. A total of 111 volunteering adults (40–55 yr) in Southern Norway were randomly assigned to an intervention group (IG; n = 39) or a no-information control group (CG; n = 50), by random allocation numbering. The IG received feedback on their health-related physical fitness, information on guidelines and recommendations fo…

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