
Health, Exercise, and Sports Sciences ETDs
Publication Date
7-24-1970
Abstract
It was the purpose of this study to determine if skin-fold measure constitute an effective method of estimating the changes in total body fat content which accompanied an exercise program. Body density and skinfold thickness were measured on fifty-nine white college males before and after a twelve week exercise program of circuit training and jogging. Significant decreases were found in percent of total body fat, kilograms of fat and gross body weight. Kilograms of fat free weight showed a significant increase. Skinfold measures yielded high pre- and post-test correlations with body density, .709 and .847 respectively. The correlation between change in skinfold measurements and change in body density produced a nonsignificant coefficient of .214. The mean change determined by skinfold measurement and the mean change determined by hydrostatic weighing were not significantly different. It was concluded that skinfold measures can yield reasonably accurate estimations of the change in mean differences of groups but fail as satisfactory indicators of alteration in body composition of individual.
Document Type
Dissertation
Language
English
Degree Name
Health Education
Level of Degree
Doctoral
Department Name
Health, Exercise, and Sports Sciences
First Committee Member (Chair)
Armond H. Seidler
Second Committee Member
Alvin Wendell Howard
Third Committee Member
Richard Lee Holemon
Fourth Committee Member
Hemming Axel Atterbom
Recommended Citation
Billing, John English. "Skinfold Estimation of Acutely Altered Body Composition." (1970). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/educ_hess_etds/202