ES 2002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Body Fat Percentage, Body Composition, Endurance Training

• School: App State
• Department: Exercise Science
• Course: ES 2002
• Professor: Marco Meucci

Document Summary

Personal choices: with endurance training or resistance raining, decreased total fat body mass, decreased fat mass, increased fat-free mass, decreased relative fat mass, weight bearing exercise increases long bone density, endurance training strengthens connective tissue. Direct methods: chemical dissolution: dissolves the body in chemicals, leaving behind fat and fat-free components, physical dissection: remove the fat from a cadaver and compare it to the rest of the body. Indirect methods: hydrostatic weighing, air displacement, skin folds, girth measurements, bioelectrical impedance analysis. Anthropometrics: the study of the size of the human body. Obese: gynoid obesity (pear shape) is when fat is mostly in the hips and thighs. It has a lower association with disease and risk. Most common in women: android obesity (apple shape) is when fat is mostly in the abdomen. It has a greater association with disease risk because of high amounts of deep visceral fat is highly metabolic: this is the easiest way to assess android/gynoid adiposity.