Somatotype and Body Fat Percentages among Malaysian Female Basketball Players

馬來西亞女子藍球選手的體型及身體脂肪

Abstract

LANGUAGE NOTE | Document text in English; abstract also in Chinese.

This study sought to determine the somatotype and body fat content of elite Malaysian female basketball players. It also sought to differentiate the somatotype and body fat content by playing position - attack, centre and defence. The somatotype was determined using the Heath Carter Somatotyping method and the body fat content by the skinfold method. Twelve elite female basketball players who represented Malaysia in the 1997 SEA Games were selected as the subjects (mean age of 22.75±2.67 years). It was found that the players were predominantly meso-endomorphic with a mean somatotype of 4.49±1.20-3.45±0.77-2.91±0.89. The centre and defence players had meso-endomorphic bodies, but the attack players endo-mosomorphic bodies. The mean body fat content was 19.68%±4.93. The defence were the fattest, followed by the centre and attack players. Female American basketball players have a body fat content of 10 to 16% while the Malaysian players in this study 10% to 26%.

本文旨在探討馬來西亞女子籃球選手的體型及體脂比例，並分析球員的位置，結果顯示：防守球員偏向接近肌肉型，脂肪比例平均為19.68%±4.93，對比美國籃球員而言，馬來西亞選手的體脂較高。