body composition, somatotype, endomorphy, mezomorphy, measuring of skinfolds, reliability of measuring

The study aims to judge the impact of skinfolds measurement on the somatotype endomorphy and mesomorphy components determination by comparing the measurement results of an expert and workers with a short experience. For the project implementation we used the students of Department of Physical Education, Pedagogical Faculty. The group of workers with a short experience consisted of four randomly selected students of seminar the purport of which was training in technique of measuring the skinfolds. The seminar lecturer was elected to the position of an expert because he was experienced in this sphere. The individual calculations were carried out by means of the statistic product SPSS 15.0. Results. The results in our investigation proved the difficulty in skinfolds measurement accuracy, especially with regard to experience and training in the used methodology. It is shown that the students measure reliably, but with a systemic error.

The study aims to judge the impact of skinfolds measurement on the somatotype endomorphic and mezomorphic components determination by comparing the measurement results of an expert and workers with a short experience. For the project implementation we used the students of Pedagogical Faculty. The results in our investigation proved the difficulty in skinfolds measurement accuracy, especially with regard to experience and training in the used methodology. It is shown that the students measure reliably, but with a systemic error. In the area of measuring the skinfolds impact on the components of somatotype it was proved that the monitored faults of measurement do not influence the result of mezomorphic component value. In the result of the endomorphic component value there the mentioned faults are clearly visible (the differences in the result are statistically significant).