Sports anthropology

The sports anthropology as comparative biology of sport driving people engaged in the somatotypes , the body composition and the proportions of the athletes, but also with sports science issues relevant to the evolution of the musculoskeletal system or cardiovascular system .

Sport anthropology aims at the metric recording of sport-relevant morphological features. The body composition is recorded by means of calipermetry , bioelectrical impedance analysis , densitometry , DEXA (dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry, method for measuring bone density ), etc.

Various theories are used to determine the constitution types (including Kretschmer , Sheldon , Conrad , Rainer Knussmann , Heath / Carter , Parnell , ...).

Other components of sports anthropology are the influence of chronobiology and physical stress on anthropometry (e.g. blood groups , human genetic parameters, ...) as well as nutrition , obesity , weight cycling , doping stigmata , anorexia athletica and gender determination (C. Raschka, 2006) .