The Special Judo Fitness Test (SJFT) has become the test most widely used by coaches and physical trainers for assessment of competitors' judo-specific physical aptitude and training programme prescription. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between the SJFT performance indices and both maximal aerobic power and the level of blood lactate concentrations in female judo ath...

The purpose of this study was determining the relationship between somatotype and selected physical fitness variables in 6-11 years-old girls. The subjects of this study consisted of 282 healthy girls with mean age of 08.44±01.40 years old, height of 129.88±10.48 cm and weight of 30.43±07.93 kg. Standard anthropometric methods were used to determine body mass, body height and all of skinfold an...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to describe the body structure and morphological characteristics of Tunisian elite handball players, and to determine the effect of these variables on functional and physical performance levels. METHODS A sample of 42 male handball players (mean age 21.98±3.24 years; training duration 12 years) at international level was submitted to a test battery compri...

Relationship between physical fitness and BMI was generally highlights the un-uniform consequences. In contrast, several studies of children adolescents highlight importance variation in indicators across full range BMIs from low to high. The purpose study evaluate relationships items among school going boys. sample included 106 males (Mean±SD; height= 158.01 ±10.39cm, weight= 50.09±10.16kg BMI...

Professional rugby league clubs implement training programmes for the development of anthropometric and physical characteristics within an academy programme. However, research that examines seasonal changes in these characteristics is limited. The purpose of the study was to evaluate the seasonal changes in anthropometric and physical characteristics of academy rugby league players by age categ...

background: the appropriate designing of school equipment for establishing a suitable sitting habit, is of major importance. unfortunately, benches and desks in iranian schools are not properly adjusted with anthropometric characteristics of students. the main theme of this research is preparing some guidelines for anthropometric designing and ergonomic adjustment of benches and desks. methods:...

the aim of the present study was to examine anthropometric characteristics and selected physical fitness factors in male elite athletes (epee, foil, sabre) of iran national fencing team. the statistical population consisted of 30 athletes of fencing national team (age range 22.2± 3.67 yr) in the three weapons (epee n=10, foil n=10 and sabre n=10). anthropometric characteristics (sitting height,...