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Measuring the body is an exact
science that requires specific skills and standards. This factor
often is not appreciated among fitness professionals, particularly
since few are taught the skills, from something as simple as
measuring a flexed arm to landmarking and taking a skinfold.
Two essential learning resources include Anthropometry Illustrated
by Rosscraft and the ISAK manual International Standards for
Anthropometric Assessment.
Anthropometry Illustrated is a digital
CD textbook on physical measurement techniques for human biology
and the health professions, and is wholly interactive. It is
designed for scientific and professional applications. It can
be read as a standard text book, or used as an interactive learning
system.
It contains five major parts:
- Introduction to Anthropometry
- Evolution of Anthropometry
- Theory & Applications (with
discussions on quality of standards/accuracy/reliability, allometry,
proportionality, occam's razor, O-scale, iconometrographics,
proximorphy, and fractionation, and more)
- Techniques & Instruments
(with discussion and methods dealing with protocol, proforma,
instruments, landmarks, lengths, breadths, skinfolds, and girths,
and more)
- Addenda to links, bibliographies,
catalogues, etc.
Each part has many sub-divisions
(Chapters) with topical signposts that can be accessed indirectly
through the parts, or directly from the detailed, interactive
Table of Contents with 'live' links. An intense amount of information
that is a must have, this CD can be ordered hrough www.Rosscraft.ca
International Standards for Anthropometric
Assessment is the key resource manual for anthropometrists,
developed through the International Society for the Advancement
of Kinanthropometry (ISAK). This quick-reference, spiral-bound
manual provides discussion on the following topics:
- Working with a specific subject
- Data collection
- Anthropometry equipment
- The Anthropometric profile
- Anatomical landmarks
- Basic measurements (general
instructions and base measurement items)
- Skinfolds, girths, lengths,
and breadths (techniques, measurement sites)
- An appendix with equipment suppliers
and requirements, anthropometry kits, and recommended resources
This manual is available by visiting
www.ISAKonline.com
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