Abstract
The study present the body composition (BC) profile and differences of the women’s national volleyball team of the Slovak Republic (senior team – SNT, U19 and U17). The BC was identified by bioimpedance method.
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 (α), total body water (TBW) and its distribution into intra- (ICW) and extracellular liquid (ECW). The authors recorded the values of women’s volleyball players indicating their good training load and corresponding to the values characterizing top-performance sport even in the category U17, when this team significantly differed from the senior team (SNT) only in FM.
On the contrary, teams U19 and SNT were significantly different in FM, TBW, A, BCM, ECM/BCM, ICW, ECW and CQ.