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lectures 3-4 Flashcards

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Body Composition Models

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Anatomical or Fluid/Mineral

  • 2-compartment Model
  • FM
  • LBM (FFM)
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why is body comositon useful

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  • Sport Science
  • Determine competition or race weight
  • Assess & monitor growing athletes
  • Monitor the effect of change to diet & exercise
  • Medicine & public health
  • Epidemiology of disease & body composition
  • Detect atypical growth due to disease, eating
    disorder, malnutrition
  • Concept of ideal body weight
  • Child health, growth & development
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Factors Affecting Body Comp

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  • genetic
  • hormonal
  • environmental
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what is body fat for

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 Insulation
 Thermogenesis
 Energy

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Skeletal tissue

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 Longitudinal skeletal growth has usually
been completed by early adulthood
 Bones adapt to stress by increasing or
decreasing
 Width
 Mineral density
 Architecture
 Skeletal mass accounts for ~23% of
total mass in the adult
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The effect of aging and fat and muscle

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 Fat levels tend to rise in both men &
women
 Skeletal muscle & bone mass show an
age related decline (sarcopenia)
 ‘poverty of the flesh”
 Reduction of LBM that appears to
accompany aging

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why does age effect ageing

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 Reduced testosterone & HGH
 Reduced physical activity
 Malnutrition
 Smoking

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Assessing body composition

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 3 Levels
 Level 1 – Direct
 Level 2 – Indirect
 Level 3 – Doubly Indirect
○ (Martin & Drinkwater 1995)
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Level 1 - Direct Assessment

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Cadaver analysis – Anatomical Dissection
Chemical:
 Fat
 Nitrogen
 Water
 Minerals
Surface anatomy followed by dissection of
each cadaver into gross tissue weights
Anatomical:
 Skin
 Adipose tissue
 Muscle
 Bone
 Residual
Results used to
 Develop new anatomically based models
 Test existing 2-compartment models
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Level 2 - Indirect Assessment

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Weight for height indices
 Hydrodensitometry
 Skinfolds
 Tissue fractionation
 Other techniques
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Level 3 – Doubly Indirect

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 % body fat from
 Skinfolds
 Hydrodensitometry
 TOBEC
 BIA
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Weight for height indices

Level 2 - Indirect Assessment

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A measure of ‘ponderosity’ & often
incorrectly construed as ‘adiposity’
• BMI (W/H2) & Inverse ponderal Index (W/H1/3)
- Falsely assume any increase in weight beyond the normal/optimal level has to be
attributed to body fat!

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Weight for height indices why is it used

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Epidemiological validity
○ high correlation with adiposity in studies using large cross sectional samples
 Precision & reliability
 Ease of measurement
 Patient comfort
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Hydrodensitometry - Level 2 - Indirect Assessment

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  • Measure body weight
     Measure weight in water
     Determine body density
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skinfolds: Level 2 - Indirect Assessment

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Measure compressed thickness of a double
layer of skin & subcutaneous tissue
 Minimum 6 sites

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O-Scale - Level 2 - Indirect Assessment

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 Does not predict body composition
 Normative based system
 Individual monitoring to provide feedbak
to client or athlete
 Geometrical adjustment to standard stature
 2 scales compared with same age & sex

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DEXA – Dual Energy X-Ray Absorptiometry - Level 2 - Indirect Assessment

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 First developed to estimate bone mineral
density (BMD) of regions of the skeleton & more
recently whole body BMD
 Uses a dual x-ray source of alternating pulses
 Able to estimate body mass of the subject with
a high degree of accuracy

18
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DEXA – Dual Energy X-Ray Absorptiometry limitations

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Difficult to determine body composition in trunk region
 Currently no cross-validation between machines
(different companies)

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Siri’s equation for predicting% body fat from hydrodensitometry why is it unreliable

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Tissue density is not constant:
 Athletes tend to have denser bones & muscles
than non-athletes, which may lead to an
underestimation of body fat percentage.
 Vice versa, body fat of elderly patients suffering
from osteoporosis may be overestimated.
 Residual volume in the lung is not constant

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% body fat from TOBEC & BIA - Level 3 - Doubly Indirect

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 Total Body Electrical Conductivity (TOBEC)
 Examine electrical conductivity to estimate LBM
 Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis (BIA)
 regression equation with Ht & Wt as dominant factors
 Both methods affected by variations in diet, hydration, ethnicity & disease states

21
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% body fat from skinfolds - Level 3 - Doubly Indirect

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More than 100 prediction equations developed using level 2 methods
 Guerra et al (2010) used a regression equation to
convert SF data to body density, THEN used the
Siri equation to derive % body fat!
 Population specific
 If used at all, prediction equations must only be
used on similar populations to the original sample

22
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Gaining weight

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Gaining lean mass may be achieved
without the need for drug therapy
 Create the correct stimulus
 Supply sufficient energy
 Provide adequate rest
23
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Anthropometry used extensively for

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  • growth and development studies
  • Predicting future capability (eg talent ID)
  • Establishing selection criteria
24
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Human proportions are measured using?

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anthropometry
Measures include
 Length & breadth
 Girths & volumes

25
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Assessing proportionality

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 Proportional indices
 Somatogram
 Phantom strategem

26
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Assessing proportionality equations

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Crural Index: CI = (leg length/thigh length) x100
Brachial Index: BI = (forearm length/arm length) x 100
Relative lower limb length: (lowe limb length/ stature) x 100

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Crural index athelete examples:

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low: LD runner
medium: sprint runner
high: basketball, volleyball

28
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Brachial Index

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low: weight lifter
medium: MD swimmer
high: Thrower

29
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Relative lower limb length

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low: gymansts, sprint runners
medium: thowers
high: MD runners, jumpers

30
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The Somatogram

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Graphical representation of the body’s
proportions using girth measurements
 Measures a % deviation from the mean
score in a population
 Each measure is plotted against the
reference man/woman

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