Changes in the ideal body shape associated with adolescent rowing‐ergometry performance following a 6‐week training intervention: new scaling insights using three‐dimensional allometry

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Nevill, AM, Walters, GWM ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9226-4473, Dring, KJ ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9647-3579, Nevill, BA, Cooper, SB ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5219-5020 and Morris, JG ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6508-7897, 2024. Changes in the ideal body shape associated with adolescent rowing‐ergometry performance following a 6‐week training intervention: new scaling insights using three‐dimensional allometry. European Journal of Sport Science, 24 (12), pp. 1865-1870. ISSN 1746-1391

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Abstract

Scaling, to remove the effects of body size, is an important methodological approach for enabling an equitable comparison of performance differences between individuals who vary in anthropometric characteristics. Many previous studies using scaling in sport have done so based on only one or two anthropometric characteristics, with only one study to date adopting a three-dimensional approach. To apply a three-dimensional allometric model to rowing ergometer performance (REP) in adolescents, and to detect whether key ‘scaling’ parameters remain stable when scaling REP both before and after a 6-week training intervention. Novel three-dimensional allometric models were used, incorporating body mass, stature and waist circumference (WC) to detect the most appropriate body size dimension(s) and scaling parameters associated with REP before and after a 6-week training intervention. Using this more flexible and sensitive three-dimensional allometry demonstrated that, following 6-weeks of training, there was a change in the ideal body shape associated with REP. Before training, taller, but not heavier, adolescents performed better. After 6-weeks of training, older participants with a greater body mass but smaller WC performed better. Scaling approaches are important for evaluating performance differences between individuals of differing body size. The findings from the current study (using a novel three-dimensional allometry approach) emphasise that relatively subtle changes in individuals' behavioural characteristics, such as changes in their training/fitness status, can result in quite dramatic changes in the body dimension characteristics and scaling parameters deemed to be key for performance in activities such as REP.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	European Journal of Sport Science
Creators:	Nevill, A.M., Walters, G.W.M., Dring, K.J., Nevill, B.A., Cooper, S.B. and Morris, J.G.
Publisher:	Wiley
Date:	5 December 2024
Volume:	24
Number:	12
ISSN:	1746-1391
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.1002/ejsc.12216 DOI 2314805 Other
Rights:	© 2024 The Author(s). European Journal of Sport Science published by Wiley-VCH GmbH on behalf of European College of Sport Science. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Divisions:	Schools > School of Science and Technology
Record created by:	Laura Ward
Date Added:	06 Dec 2024 14:25
Last Modified:	06 Dec 2024 14:25
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/52704