Comparação entre diferentes métodos para estimativa de gordura corporal de ciclistas brasileiros de elite cyclists

Abstract

The present study aimed at comparing different methods to estimate the body fatness of elite athletes. The sample consisted of 15 male elite athletes with mean age of 28.6 years. The body fatness was estimated by the skinfold (EDC), bioelectric impedance analysis (BIA) and the dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) (reference). The paired t-tests compared the differences among methods, and the intraclass correlation coefficient analyzed the relationship among them. BIA (p= 0.029) overestimated the body fatness provided by DEXA, but EDC (p= 0.094) did not overestimate. Therefore, it is possible to conclude that EDC presented the body fatness similar to DEXA.