THE PROFILE AND COMPARISON OF BODY COMPOSITION OF ELITE FEMALE VOLLEYBALL PLAYERS

The authors present the profile and comparison of body composition of the female national volleyball team of the Slovak Republic (senior team - SNT, U19 and U17). The body composition was identified with the use of the multi-frequency bioimpedance method (BIA 2000M). The monitored parameters included the amount of lean body mass (LBM), intra- (BCM) and extracellular mass (ECM) and BCM proportion in LBM (CQ), fat mass (FM), the phase angle indicating cell quality (a), total body water (TBW) and its distribution into intra- (ICW) and extracellular liquid (ECW). The authors recorded the values of female volleyball players indicating their good training load and corresponding to the values characterizing high-performance sport even in the category U17, when this team significantly differed from the senior team (SNT) only in FM (p<.05). On the contrary, teams U19 and SNT were significantly different in FM, TBW, a, BCM, ECM/BCM, ICW, ECW and CQ (p<.05). We assume that body composition indicators of the team may relate not only to the state of training load (players' physical preparedness) but also to the success of the team at important events.