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Objective: The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between body composition and some selected physical fitness factors in women who participated in entrance examination for college of physical education and sport sciences of Payame Nour University. Design: Two hundred forty nine subjects were randomly selected among 600 women enrolled in the college exam, Physical fitness tests included: chinning, sit and reach, 4 x 9 shuttle run, throwing medicine ball, crossing hurdles and balance beam. Body composition variables included: body mass, fat mass, lean body mass, sum of the three regions of skinfold thickness and body mass index. Materials and methods: Pearson correlation coefficient was applied to determine the associations between predictor and criterion variables. Results: showed that; the association between body mass, fat mass, lean body mass and BMI with throwing medicine ball and between lean body mass and 4 x 9 running with chinning was positive. The association between body mass with the total time of physical fitness test, chinning and 4 x 9 shuttle run and between sum of the three regions of skinfold thickness with total time of physical fitness test, chinning, sit up, 4 x 9 shuttle run and between BMI with the total time of physical fitness test, chinning and 4 x 9 running was negative. Conclusion: by referring to current research findings, could mention the fact that body combination has a close and deep relation to athletes operation. In order to have a higher performance, it's better that the athlete has a combination of physical fitness indexes and special body combination. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
