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Somatotype Variations Among Young Male and Female Handball Players Across Different Playing Positions

open access: yesJournal of Anthropology of Sport and Physical Education
This study examined whether young male and female handball players differ in morphological characteristics and somatotype profiles across playing positions.
Aljaž Kren
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Relationship between somatotype and body composition in college track-and-field athletes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Although, estimating body composition is important in track-and-field athletes in training,convenient and accurate methods for athletes have not yet beenestablished. Meanwhile, somatotyping has been used for the assessment of athletes' physiques.
Funatsu, Kyotaro   +7 more
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Somatotypes of Indian Athletes of Different Sports

open access: yesOnline Journal of Health & Allied Sciences, 2019
Somatotyping is the overall quantification of the morphology and categorization of physique using three numeral rating. Application of anthropometry and somatotype is well recognized in designing training programs and identifying talented athletes for ...
Shilpa Choudhary   +5 more
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Relationship between anthropometry and balance of postural control in children 6-9 years old [Relación entre el perfil antropométrico y el balance postural estático y dinámico en niños de 6 a 9 años]

open access: yes, 2019
Background: balance or postural control is a complex motor skill that aims to achieve an adequate postural balance from multiple sensorimotor processes in both static and dynamic activities.
Valdés-Badilla P.   +4 more
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Analysis of anthropometric and physical techniques in women´s volleyball

open access: yesE-balonmano.com: Revista de Ciencias del Deporte, 2016
Volleyball has been considered a highly complex sport because of their technical, tactical, physical, psychological and anthropometric factors requirements. Over the years there has been an increase in the homogeneity of the characteristics of volleyball
Natalia Valladares Iglesias   +2 more
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Changes of somatotype in high school students, V region, Chile: 1985-2010 Desplazamiento del somatotipo de estudiantes de enseñanza secundaria, V región, Chile: 1985-2010

open access: yesNutrición Hospitalaria, 2012
Objective: To determine the trend of high school students from Valparaíso Chile by means of an anthropometrical somatotype. Material and methods: two samples of students during the years 1984-1985 (86 men and 71 women) and 2009-2010 (77 men and 86 women)
P. Lizana Arce   +5 more
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Somatotype of Male and Female Venezuelan Swimmers

open access: yes, 2017
A study has been done about the somatotypes of 34 Venezuelan male and female swimmers belonging to the Francisco de Miranda Swimming Team. Somatotypes ratings were calculated for all perfomers based on the Heath-Carter Anthropometric Method.
Méndez de Pérez, B.
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Physiology of Marathon: A Narrative Review of Runners’ Profile and Predictors of Performance

open access: yesPhysiologia
Marathon sports events and those who participate in them have grown over the last years, reflecting notably an augmentation of women and master runners’ participation.
Pantelis T. Nikolaidis, Beat Knechtle
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Somatotype of children and adolescent the city of Londrina, Paraná, Brazil

open access: yesRevista Brasileira de Cineantropometria e Desempenho Humano, 1999
This study analyses somatotype components with relation to chronological age and gender, in members of the child and adolescent population of the city of Londrina, Paraná, Brazil.
Joana Elisabete Ribeiro Pinto Guedes   +1 more
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Self-esteem and body image in relation to somatotypes

open access: yes, 2016
This thesis focuses on the relationship between body image and somatotypes in the young Czech student population. Previous studies have shown a relationship between body image and BMI, notwithstanding, somatotypes describe body morphology in a more ...
Kernerová, Anna
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