A Study on Body Composition and its Right and Left Balance in Athletes

The purpose of the study was to compare the data of body composition and percent body composition of female basketball players, swimmers, and non-athletes obtain with dual energy X-ray absorptiometry(DXA). Results were as follows. 1) basketball players had higher %LTM in upper limbs and trunk than swimmers. Basketball players had lower %FM int upper limbs and trunk than swimmers. Basketball players and swimmers had almost the same %LTM and %FMin lower limbs. Basketball players had higher %BMD in each segment than swimmers. 2)Basketball players had higher %LTM and %BMCin the right uppe rlimb than in the left upper limb. Basketball players had lower %FM in the right upper limb than in the left upper limb. But swimmers had little to no difference between left and right.