SportLogia
Vol. 16, Issue 1, december 2020.

 

COMPARISON OF METHODS FOR DETERMINING PERCENTAGE OF BODY FAT ON A SAMPLE OF  KAYAKERS AND CANOEISTS – IN SLALOM

 

Goran Pašić1, Goran Grahovac1& Milomir Trivun2
1Faculty of Physical Education and Sports, University of Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina
2Faculty of Physical Education and Sports, University of East Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina


ORIGINAL SCIENTIFIC PAPER
doi:10.5550/sgia.201601.en.pgt
UDC: 797.122

 

Abstract

Determining body structure in physical culture, sports, but also in sports recreation is one of the ways to check effectiveness of certain training programs and their impact on a percentage of subcutaneous fat and fat-free components. This study was conducted on a sample of 49 kayakers and slalom canoeists (aged 19.9 ± 1.7 years), and the aim was to compare validity of methods for estimating percentage of body fat based on the skinfold measurement method in relation to the bioelectrical impedance method for application in diagnostics within a training process of slalom kayakers and slalom canoeists. The percentage of body fat was determined by methods of determining the percentage of body fat according to Siri (1961), Brozek et al. (1963), Jackson, & Pollock, (1985) and the BIA bioelectrical impedance method. After statistical procedures, correlation analysis revealed a high correlation between the methods: anthropometric methods according to Siri and Brozek, both methods with the Jackson Pollock method, while all three methods have a high level of correlation with the BIA method, while the Wilcoxon test showed that the bioelectrical impedance method had statistically significantly higher values than the method of determining the percentage of body fat according to Siri & Brozek (p <0.001), and significantly lower than the method of determining the percentage of body fat according to Jackson Pollock (p = 0.005). The research showed that in the observed sample of respondents, when it comes to one respondent, a group of respondents, respondents within one sport or an uneven sample of non-athletes, if it is not possible to use some of the more sophisticated BIA methods, a satisfactory method could be the skinfold measurement method


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To cite this article:
Pašić, G., Grahovac, G., & Trivun, M. (2020). Comparasion of methods for determining procentage of body fat on a sample of kayakers and canoeist-in slalom. Sportlogia 16 (1), 91-109.
https.//doi.org/10.5550/sgia.201601.en.pgt

 

Received: 07.11.2020.
Approved: 12.11.2020.


Correspodence:
Goran Pašić, Ph. D.
Docent at the Faculty of Physical Education and Sports, University of Banja Luka
Bulevar vojvode Petra Bojovica 1 A, 78 000 Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Telephone: 00387 65 932 714.
E-mail: gorandelmonte@yahoo.it