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Is Body Mass Index a good indicator of body composition?
When people think of body composition, thoughts of fat come to mind. However, fat is only one part. Body composition is actually the proportion of all the tissues that make up your body – adipose, muscle, bone, and water. There are many ways to measure body composition that vary in accuracy and reliability. Body mass … Continue... Continue Reading +
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A pound of feathers or a pound of bricks: How clothing can affect the accuracy of MADE.
A pound of feathers or a pound of bricks: How clothing can affect the accuracy of MADE. The clothing you wear when taking an image can impact the accuracy of your measurement. The instructions to “Take the Scan!” suggest a user wear “Athletic, tightly fitting clothes” to get the most accurate results. This description was … Continue... Continue Reading +
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Can we predict Athletic Performance – AEROBIC PERFORMANCE?
Validity is a complicated concept, but is related to the “truthfulness of the measure.” For practitioners, there are two important parts, 1) Is this actually measuring what it claims to be measuring? and 2) Is this relevant to performance in my clients and athletes? This study aimed to answer those two questions in a sample … Continue... Continue Reading +
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Can we predict Athletic Performance – ANAEROBIC POWER?
Correlating the MADE app with other body composition techniques is important because we want to establish that our users can directly compare their results from then app to more expensive and complicated techniques. Scientists and researchers can argue over fractions of a percentage point here and there….but in the end we are all essentially after … Continue... Continue Reading +
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Consistent and Reliable….
Consistency is so important. As a researcher, I need to be sure that data we collect is reproducible every single time. The same person, measured under the same conditions, with the same tool, should give me the same results. In fact, how would we ever know if progress is being made if the tool we … Continue... Continue Reading +
