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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]
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
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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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
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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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
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
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
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
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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