Skinfold tests were once a staple of AFL fitness assessments, but are now banned for junior athletes. Is this a sign footballers have ‘gone soft’, or is there good reason for it?
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Anthropometry and Kinanthropometry
The scientific study of body measurements Curated by Peter Mellow |
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Skinfold tests were once a staple of AFL fitness assessments, but are now banned for junior athletes. Is this a sign footballers have ‘gone soft’, or is there good reason for it?
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The AFL confirmed to clubs last week they would not be publishing weights of potential draft picks and skin fold testing would stop for elite juniors. It has sparked discussion again.
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From echoing societal shifts to changing the way the game is played, the heights of players at the top level of Australian Football have been a crucial part of footy's history.
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A new study found taller, leaner marathoners with long limbs tended to excel in races in warmer regions, and runners with stockier builds and shorter limbs fared better in colder climates.
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Former athletes tell of mistreatment at clubs across England, with allegations stretching back more than a decade.
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Call me fat, shame on you. Call me weak, shame on me. The AFL’s warning about body shaming inevitably leads to the question: what can you say and do?
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The effects of head trauma have gotten much of the attention, but huge weight gains have also damaged N.F.L. retirees.
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The balance of power has shifted in the sport toward the tall, and smaller players must adapt: with better agility, footwork, technique and accuracy.
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Members of the United States Olympic and Paralympic teams shed some clothing — whatever they thought was appropriate — to let you try to guess their sport.
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Over time, the body sizes and shapes of Olympians have been moving apart from each other at light-speed, and have become increasingly specialised and differentiated.
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It is not a sport known for the fragility of its players - but boys have been banned from a prestigious British rugby tournament for being too bulky. - New Zealand Herald
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Weight restrictions could soon be introduced in the state's schoolboy rugby competitions after the tragic death of 15-year-old Jake Kedzlie - grandson of rugby league legend Tommy Raudonikis - put the spotlight back on the risk of serious head...
Another place where we can apply research on the secular trend.
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Sports Anthropometry is the study of the relationship between the size and shape of the human body and sports performance.
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The evolution of the All Blacks is clearly seen in changes to the dreaded body mass index (BMI).
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Francis E. Holway, Mariano Searab - There is a lack of published data on the anthropometric and relative-age effect of elite youth field hockey players.
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Kinanthropometry in Aquatic Sport: A Study of World Class Athletes (Hk Sport Science Monograph Series, Vol 5) (9780873226585): J. E. L. Carter, Timothy R. Ackland
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Holway FE, Garavaglia R. - The large variability in size and structure between playing positions in rugby merits specific kinanthropometric profiling. We aim to report detailed descriptive anthropometric data of a sample of 133 rugby players stratified by field positions.
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Some photos from the OZ2000 Sydney Olympic Anthropometry project. This project was led by Tim Ackland, University of Western Australia and Deb Kerr, Curtin University. The project website has disappeared, these photos are almost all there is left to document the project apart from the published papers. Authors: Ackland, T., Kerr, D, Hume, P.
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The International Society for the Advancement of Kinanthropometry (ISAK) was founded as an organisation of individuals whose scientific and professional endeavour is related to kinanthropometry.
ISAK's purpose is to create and maintain an international network of colleagues who represent the world community transcending geography, politics and the bounds of separate disciplines in order to establish a dynamic area of scientific endeavour.
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METHODS Measurements were taken of body composition, somatotype, proportionality and several anthropometric indicators in 41 Cuban women volleyball players, grouped by playing position. All were members of the ...