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Morphological characteristics of a top-level bodybuilder during preparation for competition : a case study

Trend Analysis is a statistical method often used in Kinesiology for tracking progress and predicting sport results. Tracking dynamics of present sport results and records provides information that can be used for predicting sport results in the future. Competitive bodybuilding has two main conditioning goals ; the first is to develop new, additional muscle mass during the off season period called “mass”.The second goal is to achieve definition”. During this period the effort is to maintain the maximum amount of muscle mass while body fat is reduced to a minimum level.In the current literature there is insufficient information showing the trend of morphological characteristics of elite athletes in general, especially in bodybuilding. Therefore the main objective of this study is to show such changes during conditioning cycles of mass and definition, and to determine their trend during one-year conditioning process of a top-level body builder. A series of regression analyses were performed to attain the relation between training program and certain morphological characteristics. Correlation coefficients showed that the training process had a great influence on the morphological characteristics of the subject. Regression analysis also provided the regression coefficients and time function of trends of morphological characteristics during mass and definition periods. During the mass period all morphological characteristic demonstrated a steep trend of growth in the first 10 weeks (best approximated as polynomial functions of a third degree). The remaining period of time shows a stagnation of morphological values. The definition period has a linear trend (linear functions) and affects the body equally during the whole period. Functions and trends of morphological characteristics of a top-level bodybuilder can be used as a model in future preparations for competitions of this athlete, and also for other competitors with the same or similar morphological characteristics.

programmed training process; trend analysis; case study

Rad je prezentiran na skupu 6th International Scientific Conference on Kinesiology "Integrative power of kinesiology" : proceedings book ; Dragan Milanović, Goran Sporiš (ur.) ; Zagreb : University of Zagreb, Faculty of Kinesiology, 2011. ; 771 str. ; ISBN 9789533170138.