caa a22 4500 386309647 CHVBK 20180307111541.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1988 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/1478815 doi S014976770001024X pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/1478815 Body Composition and the Comparison of Measurement Techniques in Different Levels and Styles of Dancers [Elektronische Daten] The physical appearance required in dance, particularly in terms of body weight and fat, is often a demand that hovers over the aspiring and professional dancer's career (Vincent, 1979). This investigation was intended to measure various aspects of body composition in different types of dancers, as well as use various methods. Measurements of percent body fat and lean weight may serve as a means of quantifying appearance in dance so that dancers may be guided towards appropriate body composition goals. This may be more reflective of the dancer's true physique than relying simply on total body weight, which does not take proportions of muscle and fat into account. Kirkendall and Calabrese (1983) have noted that attention must be paid to lean mass in dancers as well as percent fat. A method of evaluating the relationship between height, lean mass (fat free weight), and total weight was developed for this study to address the issue of proportion (i.e., a dancer who perhaps has a low percent fat level but is still considered too "heavy” because of a large muscle mass). Although hydrostatic weighing has been noted as "the gold standard” in body composition measurements (Nash, 1985), such methods are often unavailable or impractical for professional dancers or university dance departments. Anthropometric (or "skinfold”) methods have greater practicality, but may lack the individual accuracy of hydrostatic methods (Nash, 1985). Recently, electrical impedance has been cited as a convenient alternative to both underwater and skinfold techniques (Harrison & Van Italli, 1982; Presta, et al. 1984). Copyright © Congress on Research in Dance 1988 Chmelar Robin D. Fitt Sally S. Schultz Barry B. Ruhling Robert O. Shepherd Terry Dance Research Journal Cambridge University Press 20/1(1988), 37-41 0149-7677 20:1<37 1988 20 DRJ https://doi.org/10.2307/1478815 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/1478815 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Chmelar Robin D. NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Fitt Sally S. NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Schultz Barry B. NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Ruhling Robert O. NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Shepherd Terry NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Dance Research Journal Cambridge University Press 20/1(1988), 37-41 0149-7677 20:1<37 1988 20 DRJ CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge