ANTHROPOMETRY OF BODY BUILDERS IN RELATION TO THE POPULATION STANDARD

• Autor(a) principal: MAESTÁ, Naílza
• Data de Publicação: 2000
• Outros Autores: Serpeloni CYRINO, Edilson, Nardo JÚNIOR, Nelson, Gabriel MORELLI, Mônica Yara, Santarém SOBRINHO, José Maria, Carlos BURINI, Roberto
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Nutrição
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.puc-campinas.edu.br/nutricao/article/view/8769
• topic: nutritional status; anthropometry; athletes; bodybuilders; estado nutricional; antropometria; atletas; musculação

Body builders have as their training goals the maximum muscle hypertrophy with minimum adiposity. However, the scarcity of specific standards implies often in framing wrongly those athletes either as overweight (by their BMI) or energy malnourished (by their fat stores). The objective of this study was to compare the body composition of body builders with population standards. Thirty-six adults, 26 male (27.2 ± 7.2 years) and 10 female (30 ± 6.1 years) nationwide competitive body builders, were assessed considering weight, height, body mass index, adiposity, arm and leg circumferences and skinfolds. The data were referred eitheras percentile or standard deviations (Z score) of population standards. Body weight and height were among the closest values from the populational mean whereas upper arm muscle circumference (for men) and body adiposity (for women) were the farterest. By using fat parameters as indicators of their protein-energy status, the undernourishment was found in 88.5% of men and 100.0% of women. Thus, it seems that body builders deserve their own anthropometric standards to avoid nutritional status misplacements.