Indicadores Antropométricos en un Centro de Acondicionamiento Físico Urbano de la Provincia de Heredia

Assessments of Anthropometric, Physiological and Fitness Indicators According to Sex and Age in Participants of a Swimming Program

“…As for the influence of age on the variables analyzed, the results of this study are in agreement with those obtained in other similar studies that show, for the anthropometric variables, values classified as unhealthy in the oldest age groups (Cartes-Velazquez & Navarrete-Briones, 2012;Rivera-Cabezas & Ureña-Bonilla, 2014;Rodríguez-Montero et al, 2014), which may be due to the body's inability to metabolize fat as age increases, as well as the loss of total muscle mass and bone density and to the habits of life, food and the amount of physical activity, which are neglected at an older age, affecting the processes of fat metabolization by the body that causes them to accumulate more easily in the body (Chuang et al, 2012;Dunsky et al, 2013;Ranasinghe et al, 2013).…”

“…e variables of body mass index, fat percentage, and waist circumference were the measurements in which more than 55% of the individuals presented unhealthy parameters. e data obtained in the present study are similar to other studies carried out in the area of evaluation of physical health components, in which variables such as gender, age, and physical health level (Cartes-Velazquez & Navarrete-Briones, 2012;Secchi & García, 2013;Rivera-Cabezas & Ureña-Bonilla, 2014;Rodríguez-Montero et al, 2014;Rojas-Valverde et al, 2016) were considered. e values obtained in this study in relation to the variables of body mass index and percentage of fat, categorized as unhealthy, are congruent with those reported in previous research studies (Chistofaro et al, 2011;Michelotto et al, 2010).…”

“…In the case of age, the processes of aging affect the functionality of the organism. It has been reported that younger people more frequently show values considered as healthy in the anthropometric (Rivera-Cabezas & Ureña-Bonilla, 2014;Rodríguez-Montero et al, 2014) and physiological variables (Campos-Nonato et al, 2013;Škrkar et al, 2015). In contrast, in physical qualities, age causes a decrease in performance as it increases (Vaquero et al, 2012;Zaragoza et al, 2004).…”

“…Healthy values of fat percentage reported were between 13% and 33%, and the unhealthy ones corresponded to values above 34%. For the waist circumference, the parameters reported as healthy corresponded to values below 80 cm for women and 102 cm for men (Corvos-Hidalgo & Corvos-Hidalgo 2013;Cossio-Bolaños et al 2011, Fedewa, Nickerson, & Esco, 2019Rivera-Cabezas & Ureña-Bonilla, 2014;Rodríguez-Montero, Ureña-Bonilla, Blanco-Romero, Sánchez-Ureña & Salas-Cabrera, 2014).…”

“…Regarding the Central America area, only in Costa Rica, some descriptive studies were identified that have evaluated anthropometric variables in different populations. In this sense, evaluations for health and the physical aptitude have been made in the business world (Rodríguez-Montero et al, 2014), in adults attending physical fitness centers (Rivera-Cabezas & Ureña-Bonilla, 2014), and in a recreation center (Rojas-Valverde et al, 2016). More recently, Rivera, Ureña, Fernández, Quesada, & Gómez (2017) reported evaluations with populations from a university campus.…”