Body composition (BC) determines strength, power, and agility in sports such as rugby. Not only is the study of morphology BC essential to establish player positions, but it also allows optimisation competitive performance. The aim this was analyse different models (anthropometry bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA)) a female rugby team. Their somatotype compared with vector (BIVA) graph. A c...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Childhood obesity is increasing dramatically in last decades. To evaluate the usefulness of body mass index (BMI), skinfold thickness (ST), waist circumference (WC), and foot-to-foot bioelectrical impedance (BIA-FF) for screening for obesity in mixed-race population, using the tetrapolar bioelectrical impedance (BIA-T) technique as reference method. METHODS AND RESULTS A c...

Objective: In this work the anthropometric features and the body composition of Italian hockey players, members of the Female National team, were analysed. The purpose of the research was to verify if morphological features could influence the performance of different positional groups. Materials and Methods: Each player was measured for her total and sitting height, weight, 9 skinfolds thickne...

The traditional method of assessing total body water (TBW), extracellular water (ECW), and intracellular water (ICW) has been the use of isotopes, on the basis of the dilution principle. Although the development of bioelectrical impedance techniques has eliminated many of the measurement constraints associated with the dilution methods, the degree of interchangeability between the two methods r...