Somatotype and body composition profiles of children and adolescent male basketball players
HomoSomatotype and body composition (BC) are related to athletes’ physical fitness and performance. The aims of this study were (a) to determine the somatotype and BC profiles of children and adolescent male basketball players and (b) to investigate the ...
Çağdaş Özgür Cengizel +2 more
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Age at Menarche and Risk of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: A Prospective Cohort Study Among 27,482 Women [PDF]
, 2016 OBJECTIVE: To examine the association between age at menarche and risk of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM). RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS: A prospective cohort study of 42,109 eligible pregnancies from 27,482 women in the Nurses' Health Study II.
Buck Louis, Germaine M. +7 more
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Health-Related Fitness and Energy Expenditure in Recreational Youth Rock Climbers 8-16 Years of Age [PDF]
, 2015 International Journal of Exercise Science 8(2): 174-183, 2015. Information on the characteristics of youth rock climbers is minimal. The purpose was to 1) Determine the influence of a three-month program of bouldering and vertical rock climbing on the ...
Johnston, Sean A +4 more
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Sports anthropological and somatotypical comparison between young male shotputters and javelin throwers of different performance classes and recreational athletes [PDF]
, 2015 This study examines anthropometric and somatotypical differences between German male junior shot putters (n = 19) and javelin throwers (n = 19).Recreational athletes (n = 11) served as the control group (age range 16 – 23 years).Overall, the shot-putters
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Papers on Anthropology, 2020 Although the available studies on body types in ski sports are relatively sparse and rather old, there are clear indications that, especially in alpine skiing, top athletes have become stronger and heavier in the last three decades [43, 24]. According to Bahr and Tone [5] as well as Mildner et al.
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Somatotype is more interactive with strength than fat mass and physical activity in peripubertal children [PDF]
, 2011 The purpose of this study was to analyse the interaction between somatotype, body fat and physical activity in prepubescent children. This was a cross!sectional study design involving 312 children (160 girls, 152 boys) aged between 10 ...
Barbosa, Tiago M. +4 more
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The Körmend growth study 1968 and 2008: Somatotypes of the boys [PDF]
, 2014 The Körmend Growth Study, a series of cross-sectional anthropological surveys, repeated in every 10 years since 1958, was among the firsts to demonstrate the existence of secular trends in the growth and the maturation of children.
Molnár, Péter +3 more
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Sibling similarities in somatotype
Revista Brasileira de Cineantropometria e Desempenho Humano, 2006 The present study aim to analyze the similarity in somatotype. The sample comprised 366 sibling pairs of both sex, with 10 to 18 years of age. Height, weight, triceps, subscapular, supraspinale, and median calf skinfolds, biepcondylar of the humerus and femur, upper arm girth, elbow flexed and tensed, calf girth were measured and somatotype was ...
da Silva Vasques, Catarina Margarida +4 more
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Perfil antropomètric en els golfistes púbers [PDF]
, 2008 Descriure les característiques morfològiques d'un grup de jugadors de golf de Màlaga en edat puberal. Mètode: Es realitza un estudi transversal descriptiu en 20 nois i 10 noies.
Martín Fernández, María +3 more
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Physiological responses in a simulated canarian wrestling contest [PDF]
, 2015 La Lucha Canaria (LC) ha sido recientemente reconocida como deporte por el Consejo Superior de Deportes, aunque su origen se pierde en el tiempo. Sin embargo, no hay ningún trabajo en la bibliografía científica que describa qué ocurre fisiológicamente ...
Alvero-Cruz, J. R. +4 more
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