BMJ

INFLUENCE OF FAT PERCENTAGE, FRONT THIGH SKINFOLD AND GIRTH ON THE MAXIMUM RADIAL DISPLACEMENT OF THE DOMINANT RECTUS FEMORIS

Background Tensiomyography (TMG) is an innovative tool to control athletic training, and prevent and follow up muscular injuries. The reliability and validity for different population (sport modality, ...
BMJ

Changes in performance, skinfold thicknesses, and fat patterning after three years of intense athletic conditioning in high level runners

Objectives: To determine if the changes in specific skinfold sites induced by intense athletic conditioning over a three year period were associated with changes in running performance in high level ...
Nature

Prediction of DXA-determined whole body fat from skinfolds: importance of including skinfolds from the thigh and calf in young, healthy men and women

To investigate the relationship of percent body fat (%fat), assessed by dual energy-X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) or a four-compartment model, with upper body and lower limb skinfolds. In all, 31 females ...
The Conversation

Does the AFL ban on skinfold testing avoid fat shaming – or has footy ‘gone soft’?

Dominique Condo works for Richmond Football Club and collaborates with the AFL on the Mental Health and Wellbeing Collaborate Group and Eating Disorder/Disordered Eating Working Party. There was, ...