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

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