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Secular changes in the anthropometric and motor characteristics of Polish male university students between 2000 and 2018.

Robert PodstawskiPiotr Żurek
Published in: American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council (2020)
The trend of increasing body height has been maintained in the studied population, but unlike body mass and BMI, the rate of increase in body height was lower than in the preceding years. A decrease in body mass and BMI is correlated with an improvement in motor tests, whereas an increase in the above parameters leads to a significant decline in all evaluated motor abilities.
Keyphrases
  • body mass index
  • weight gain
  • body composition
  • solid state