Exploratory approach to speculate on body composition models for elite teenage basketball players.

ABSTRACT: The study of human body composition covers many fields, from clinical assessment to sports performance. Humans manifest different traits that set limitations in model estimation. This investigation aimed to (i) provide sport-specific densities for reducing biological variation in body composition assessment, and (ii) develop new regression models for body volume and density estimation by field applications. Thirty elite basketball players (16.84 ± 1.15 years; 188.48 ± 6.74 cm; 82.66 ± 12.23 kg) with a mean of 10.48 years of sport experience underwent anthropometric, bio-impedance (BIA) and air-displacement plethysmography (ADP) evaluations. Many models accounting for body fat percentage (BF) used the measured body mass (BM), volume (BV) and density (d) to analyse adipose and fat-free tissu

SUBMITTER: Mauro M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12534532 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature