Validity of Anthropometric Estimations of Body Composition in High School Wrestlers
| Autor: | R. A. Hughes, Terry J. Housh, W G Thorland, Kathryn B. Kenney, S. L. McDowell, Glen O. Johnson, Craig J. Cisar |
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| Rok vydání: | 1989 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Schools Hydrostatic weighing Adolescent Anthropometry Accurate estimation Body Weight Reproducibility of Results Physical Therapy Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation General Medicine Body density Constant error Total error Standard error Nephrology Statistics Physical therapy medicine Humans Regression Analysis Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Wrestling Mathematics |
| Zdroj: | Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport. 60:239-245 |
| ISSN: | 2168-3824 0270-1367 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/02701367.1989.10607446 |
| Popis: | The purpose of this study was to determine the validity of 23 anthropometric equations for estimating body composition and minimal wrestling weight in high school wrestlers. A total of 409 high school wrestlers (M age +/- SD = 16.42 +/- 1.03 yrs) volunteered for this study. Twenty-three anthropometric measures including eight skinfolds, nine circumferences, and six diameters were obtained from each subject. The mean body density, determined from underwater weighing, was 1.0748 +/- 0.0100 g.cm-3. The crossvalidation analyses indicated that the quadratic skinfold equation of Lohman resulted in the most accurate estimation of body density. The total error, constant error, standard error of estimate, and r for this equation were 0.0077 g.cm-3, -0.0003 g.cm-3, 0.0076 g.cm-3 and .65, respectively. Furthermore, the results of this investigation indicated that the minimal wrestling weight equations of Tcheng and Tipton resulted in total error values (5.54 to 6.06 kg) which were too large to be of practical use for high school wrestlers. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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