Intra- and inter-judge reliabilities in measuring the skin-fold thicknesses of ultra runners under field conditions

Beat Knechtle; Irena Joleska; Andrea Wirth; Patrizia Knechtle; Thomas Rosemann; Oliver Senn

doi:10.2466/03.05.PMS.111.4.105-106

Intra- and inter-judge reliabilities in measuring the skin-fold thicknesses of ultra runners under field conditions

Percept Mot Skills. 2010 Aug;111(1):105-6. doi: 10.2466/03.05.PMS.111.4.105-106.

Authors

Beat Knechtle¹, Irena Joleska, Andrea Wirth, Patrizia Knechtle, Thomas Rosemann, Oliver Senn

Affiliation

¹ Gesundheitszentrum St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland. beat.knechtle@hispeed.ch

PMID: 21058591
DOI: 10.2466/03.05.PMS.111.4.105-106

Abstract

Inter- and intra-judge reliabilities of skinfold measures were investigated in a sample of 27 men and 11 women ultramarathon runners. Two physicians had agreement higher than 90% in field measurements before an ultramarathon race.

MeSH terms

Body Fat Distribution / statistics & numerical data
Body Weights and Measures / statistics & numerical data*
Female
Humans
Male
Observer Variation
Reproducibility of Results
Running / physiology*
Sex Factors
Skinfold Thickness*