The aim of this study was to describe the physiques of Ironman athletes and the relationship between Ironman's performance, training and somatotype. A total of 165 male and 22 female competitors of the Ironman Switzerland volunteered in this study. Ten anthropometric dimensions were measured, and 12 training and history variables were recorded with a questionnaire. The variables were compared w...

OBJECTIVE Voice quality provides information about the anatomical characteristics of the speaker. The patterns of somatotype and body composition can provide essential knowledge to characterize the individuality of voice quality. The aim of this study was to verify if there were significant differences in somatotype and body composition between normal and dysphonic speakers. STUDY DESIGN Cros...

The somatotyping method is especially helpful in sports in which the body could directly influence the biomechanics of movements and the performance's results. The purpose of this study was to determine the somatotype of elite Italian gymnasts and to compare it in terms of competition levels. The sample comprised 64 elite gymnasts (42 females (F), somatotype 1.4-4.4-3.2; and 22 males (M), somat...

AIMS To investigate the relation between somatotype, performance characteristics, and the incidence of injury during the Australian Netball Championships. METHOD Two hundred and forty high performance netball players competed at the Australian Netball Championships in which 213 (89%) were measured using the Heath-Carter somatotype scale. During these championships, in conjunction with the inj...

Somatotyping is a practical technique for the description of physique. Individuals with Type 2 diabetes are characterized by physical peculiarities, such as overweight, obesity and a central pattern of body fat distribution. Somatotype applications to diabetes are limited. The objective of this study is to describe the somatotype of elderly type 2 diabetes patients. The sample consisted of 110 ...

The clustering of the risk factors in the families for many organic diseases indicates that there exists some common link between physiology, constitution, genetics, somatotype and pathology, however, the physiological path indicating the clear cut relationship between the two remains obscure. Many organic diseases seem to have a complex multifactorial etiology where neither the genetic nor env...

The aim of this study was to identify the effect of somatotype and body composition variables on leg explosive power of college level men students. The sample consisted of 500 young college students, divided into two groups: athletes (N=250) undergoing Bachelor of Physical Education course whose mean age 23.86 ± 0.36 years; and nonathletes (N=250) college students who do not take part regular p...

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the relationship between somatotype components and maximal alactacid anaerobic power (MAAP) in trained subjects. The somatotype components (endomorphy: x = 2.66, S.D. = ± 0.78; mesomorphy: x = 5.45, S.D. = ±1.12; ectomorphy: x = 2.46, S.D. = ± 0.88) and total MAAP were measured in 40 male fencers (aged, x 21.79, S.D. = ± 3.97) in order to dete...

INTRODUCTION Type 2 diabetes is a metabolic disorder and as such it no doubt affects the components of somatotype of diabetics. AIM The aim of this study was to determine the somatotype of males with type 2 diabetes. PATIENTS AND METHODS In the study we assessed anthropometrically 169 male patients with type 2 diabetes. The patients were Bulgarian; they were allocated into two age groups: g...

Objective(s). Main aim of this cross-sectional study was to analyse intra-positional, inter-positional differences in proportions of particular somatotype categories in youth volleyball players. Methods. Heath-Carter method was used to determine somatotype characteristics of 181 young female volleyball players (age 14.05±0.93, height 170.03±7.61 cm, mass 57.80±8.59 kg, bod...