Author : Neal Prokop
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (922 download)
Book Synopsis Seasonal Changes in Whole Body, and Regional Body Composition Profiles of Elite Collegiate Hockey Players by : Neal Prokop
Download or read book Seasonal Changes in Whole Body, and Regional Body Composition Profiles of Elite Collegiate Hockey Players written by Neal Prokop and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " The monitoring of a collegiate hockey player's body composition can reflect fitness characteristics, and may help players, coaches or strength & conditioning professionals optimize physiologic gains during an off-season, while simultaneously preventing performance decrements in-season. Two separate studies took place in this investigation. The first study's purpose was to examine changes in the whole-body, and regional-body composition profiles of elite collegiate hockey players in regards to fat and lean tissue mass during an off-season and the first half of a competitive season. The purpose of the second study was to evaluate if collegiate players could accurately perceive their fluctuations in body composition. In the first study, the body composition profiles of nineteen elite Canadian collegiate hockey players were assessed using dual energy x-ray absorptiometry at three different time-points (i.e. end of season, pre-season and mid-season). A repeated measures anova was used to compare the player's changes in body composition at the different time-points. Statistically significant changes in body composition profiles were observed as players showed various tissue gains/losses depending on the region assessed. Overall, players gained (1.38kg, p