Kinanthropometric assessment of a football team over one season

ABSTRACT

We studied the 23 components of the ZamoraFootball Club team, from the second division Bof the Spanish football league, along one season.Seventeen anthropometric variables were studied,together with the percentage of fat accordingto the Carter formula and body composition(tetracompartmental model). Analysis of variance(ANOVA) was employed for comparisons amonggroups (p<0.05).In general, the team was found to show a suitableanthropometric development along the season.Both weight and the Body Mass Index decreasedalong the period studied. With theexception of the suprailiac fold, fat folds decreasedas from the first measurement. Fatweight declined, as did its percentage, significantdifferences being observed between the measurementsmade at the end of the season and theprevious measurements taken. A discrete increasein bone and muscle weight was observed (AU)

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