ANTHROPOMETRIC INDEXES IN YOUNG PADDLERS

作者：Alacid F^*; Lopez Minarro P A; Martinez I; Ferrer Lopez V

来源：Revista Internacional de Medicina y Ciencias de la Actividad Fisica y del Deporte, 2011, 11(41): 58-76.

• anthropometry
• canoeing
• proportionality
• adolescence

The objectives of this study were to describe and compare the characteristics of the anthropometric indexes in 13 and 14 yo. paddlers. Body mass, stature, sitting height, arm spam, waist and hip girths, arm and forearm lengths and biacromial and biiliocristal breaths were measured in the 131 participant paddlers. Anthropometric indexes were obtained: body mass index, waist-hip ratio, relative arm spam and cormic, Manouvrier's, acromial-iliac and brachial indexes. Most paddlers had a healthy weight for height, a low waist-hip ratio, intermediate trunk length, long lower limbs, rectangular trunk shape and a short forearm length. Acromial-iliac index was significantly higher in females and waist-hip ratio had the lower values than males (p < 0.001). In conclusion, anthropometric indexes were similar in the different categories of young paddlers, except in the indexes based on the hip girth and the biiliocristal breath in women kayakers.

• 出版日期2011-3