%0 Journal Article
%T Anthropometric evaluation of body composition in ballet dancers. A longitudinal study
%A Hamlet Betancourt Le¨®n
%A Julieta Ar¨¦chiga Viramontes
%A Maria Elena D¨ªaz S¨¢nchez
%J Revista Brasileira de Cineantropometria e Desempenho Humano
%D 2008
%I Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
%X The body of the adolescent dancer is the result of morphological, physiological and behavioral adaptations due to specific physical training. For the ballet master, body weight is irrelevant to evaluating the technical and artistic performance and beauty of a figure. All ballet dancers must have bodies that conform to the canon of international ballet in order to be able to perform in public. The purpose of this study is to describe the changes in the body composition of dancers at the Cuban National School of Ballet between two points in their training process. This was a longitudinal study of 54 girls and 40 boys, aged between 15 and 20 years old. An anthropometric protocol of 6 measurements was employed in order to determine body composition using the Durnin and Rahaman method for females and the Parizkov¨¢ and Buzkov¨¢ method for males. The main results demonstrate signifi cant increases in both weight and height for age in both sexes, and it was observed that height growth velocity decreased with age. The female dancers exhibited stable body fat percentages for all ages while male dancers signifi cantly reduced this percentage from one year to the next. The female students exhibited higher mean percentage body fat values than the normal range established in Cuba for elite athletes from competitive artistic sports and professional dancers, while the male students exhibited body fat percentages that were similar to these specialized groups. Resumo El cuerpo humano del bailar¨ªn adolescente es resultado de las adaptaciones orfol¨®gicas-fi siol¨®gicas y conductuales de un entrenamiento f¨ªsico particular. Para los maestros de ballet el peso corporal no es relevante en la evaluaci¨®n t¨¦cnica-art¨ªstica y de belleza de la fi gura del danzante. Cada bailar¨ªn tiene que cumplir con los c¨¢nones internacionales de fi gura del ballet para presentarse en el escenario art¨ªstico. El objetivo de esta investigaci¨®n es describir las variaciones de la composici¨®n corporal de los bailarines de la Escuela Nacional de Ballet de Cuba en dos momentos del proceso de entrenamiento. Se analizaron a trav¨¦s de un estudio longitudinal 54 bailarinas y 40 bailarines con edades entre 15 y 20 a os. Se aplic¨® un protocolo antropom¨¦trico de 6 mediciones para estimar la composici¨®n corporal, emple¨¢ndose las ecuaciones de Durnin y Rahaman, sexo femenino y Parizkov¨¢ y Buzkov¨¢, sexo masculino. Los bailarines manifestaron incrementos signifi cativos de peso y estatura; la velocidad de crecimiento de la estatura disminuy¨® con la edad para los dos sexos. En las bailarinas de todos los grupos etario
%K Kinanthropometry
%K Body fat percentage
%K Adolescents
%K Dancers
%K Cineantropometria
%K Porcentaje Graso
%K Adolescentes
%K Bailarines.
%U http://www.periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/rbcdh/article/view/4150/3491