Body composition and nutrition of female athletes
Background. The somatic features of the athletes’ bodies partially determine their sporting level and are conditioned to a large extent by the state of nutrition. Objective. The aim of this paper is to present nutritional status and its correlation with the somatic determinants of training athletes...
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| author | Karol Pilis Krzysztof Stec Anna Pilis Agata Mroczek Cezary Michalski Wiesław Pilis |
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| description | Background. The somatic features of the athletes’ bodies partially determine their sporting level and are conditioned to a large extent by the state of nutrition.
Objective. The aim of this paper is to present nutritional status and its correlation with the somatic determinants of training athletes and physical education students.
Material and methods. This study involved 12 weightlifting players (subgroup-WL), 15 soccer players (subgroup-SP), 12 table tennis players (subgroup-TT) and 12 female students of physical education (subgroup-C). In all subjects, the age and somatic variables were recorded and the daily intake of energy, water, proteins, fats and carbohydrates was determined by 24-h dietary recalls.
Results. Although the analysis of variance did not show significant differences in somatic variables and nutrition data, post hoc analysis showed significant differences between some subgroups in terms of age, BMI, fat content (BF), fat-free mass (FFM) and the amount of water, protein and carbohydrates consumed during the day. It was also shown that somatic variables correlated with relatively expressed amounts of energy, proteins and carbohydrates consumed in individual subgroups, as well as in the whole group formed from all subgroups of studied women. In addition, there were significant correlations between somatic variables and the total amount of water consumed in the whole group and the total amount of protein consumed in subgroup C (p<0.05), as well as the total amount of fat consumed in subgroup WL.
Conclusions. In summary, it was found that the examined women used an abnormal hypoenergetic diet with too low carbohydrate content in which were more useful relative than absolute amounts of consumed proteins, fats and carbohydrates.
In this unfavorable situation, dietary education of the respondents seems to be necessary. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-33950555ce5044da8817ec1afa815bb92022-12-22T01:44:37ZengNational Institute of Public Health - National Institute of HygieneRoczniki Panstwowego Zakladu Higieny0035-77152451-23112019-09-0170324325110.32394/rpzh.2019.0074Body composition and nutrition of female athletesKarol Pilis0Krzysztof Stec1Anna Pilis2Agata Mroczek3Cezary Michalski4Wiesław Pilis5Institute of Physical Education, Tourism and Physiotherapy, Jan Dlugosz University, Czestochowa, PolandInstitute of Physical Education, Tourism and Physiotherapy, Jan Dlugosz University, Czestochowa, PolandInstitute of Physical Education, Tourism and Physiotherapy, Jan Dlugosz University, Czestochowa, PolandDepartment of Physiotherapy, Opole Medical School, Opole, PolandInstitute of Physical Education, Tourism and Physiotherapy, Jan Dlugosz University, Czestochowa, PolandInstitute of Physical Education, Tourism and Physiotherapy, Jan Dlugosz University, Czestochowa, Poland / Department of Physiotherapy, Opole Medical School, Opole, PolandBackground. The somatic features of the athletes’ bodies partially determine their sporting level and are conditioned to a large extent by the state of nutrition. Objective. The aim of this paper is to present nutritional status and its correlation with the somatic determinants of training athletes and physical education students. Material and methods. This study involved 12 weightlifting players (subgroup-WL), 15 soccer players (subgroup-SP), 12 table tennis players (subgroup-TT) and 12 female students of physical education (subgroup-C). In all subjects, the age and somatic variables were recorded and the daily intake of energy, water, proteins, fats and carbohydrates was determined by 24-h dietary recalls. Results. Although the analysis of variance did not show significant differences in somatic variables and nutrition data, post hoc analysis showed significant differences between some subgroups in terms of age, BMI, fat content (BF), fat-free mass (FFM) and the amount of water, protein and carbohydrates consumed during the day. It was also shown that somatic variables correlated with relatively expressed amounts of energy, proteins and carbohydrates consumed in individual subgroups, as well as in the whole group formed from all subgroups of studied women. In addition, there were significant correlations between somatic variables and the total amount of water consumed in the whole group and the total amount of protein consumed in subgroup C (p<0.05), as well as the total amount of fat consumed in subgroup WL. Conclusions. In summary, it was found that the examined women used an abnormal hypoenergetic diet with too low carbohydrate content in which were more useful relative than absolute amounts of consumed proteins, fats and carbohydrates. In this unfavorable situation, dietary education of the respondents seems to be necessary.http://wydawnictwa.pzh.gov.pl/roczniki_pzh/pobierz-artykul?id=1293body compositionnutritionwomenathletes |
| spellingShingle | Karol Pilis Krzysztof Stec Anna Pilis Agata Mroczek Cezary Michalski Wiesław Pilis Body composition and nutrition of female athletes Roczniki Panstwowego Zakladu Higieny body composition nutrition women athletes |
| title | Body composition and nutrition of female athletes |
| title_full | Body composition and nutrition of female athletes |
| title_fullStr | Body composition and nutrition of female athletes |
| title_full_unstemmed | Body composition and nutrition of female athletes |
| title_short | Body composition and nutrition of female athletes |
| title_sort | body composition and nutrition of female athletes |
| topic | body composition nutrition women athletes |
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