The Examination of Relationship Between Anthropometric Measurement Values of Lower Extremity and Weightlifting Performance of Olympic Style Weightlifting Athletes
Abstract
The study aims to determine the relationship between some anthropometric measurement values of lower extremity of athletes in olympic style weightlifting and weightlifting performance. Male (n= 35, age: 18.43±1.07, height: 1.72±.07 m, body weight: 74.70±14.63 kg, body muscle index: 25.12±4.05 kg/m2) and female (n= 20, age: 21.20±3.49, height: 1.66±.08 m, body weight: 66.25± 15.12 kg, body muscle index: 23,98±3.96 kg/m2) athletes in olympic style weightlifting participated in this study. Anthropometric measurements of right-left thigh and lower leg length, right-left thigh and calf girth of male and female athletes were obtained. One repetition maximum of snatch and clean and jerk performances of the athletes was recorded. A symmetry was observed between length and girth values of right-left lower extremity of athlete groups. Right-left thigh length, thigh and calf girth of female athletes were found be correlated both with snatch and with clean and jerk performance. Right-left lower leg length of both male and female athletes was not correlated with weightlifting performance. Consequently, it might be stated that anthropometric measurement values of length and girth of lower extremity of female athletes in olympic style weightlifting are correlated with their snatch and clean and jerk performances.
Keywords
Anthropometric measurement,Olympic style weightlifting,Snatch,Clean and jerk
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