COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF BODY COMPOSITION

Abstract

The analysis of body composition is a broadly applied approach used to evaluate the health condition of the human body, with a view to improving the quality of life, physical activity and sport performance. This study focused on a body analysis of three categories of women athletes, handball players, skaters, swimmers, and compared the results with those obtained from a group of adult women who practice 2 hours of aerobics per week. The Tanita Body Composition Analyser, including the bioelectrical impedance analysis, was used on a group of 40 people, divided into four categories. The results of the analysis of the collected data show that there are similar results in terms of the athletes and that there is a relationship between electrical impedance and total body water.

Keywords

• Body composition analyser
• fat mass
• fat-free mass
• total body water
• bioelectrical impedance.