Abstract
The contribution deals with body composition profile of elite women volleyball players, participants in Europe Champions League 2008. Body composition was examined by means of multifrequency bioimpedance BIA 2000 M (Datainput, 2004).
The elite volleyball players show high proportion of lean body mass and low proportion of fat mass when compared to both common population and elite women volleyball players in available literature. Commonly used lean body mass and fat mass are accompanied by other parameters which may head to individual assessment of eventual changes in player’s body composition caused by training periodicity (ratio between extra cellular mass and intra cellular mass, percentage of proportion of body cell mass, intracellular and extracellular fluid and others).
In conclusion the authors emphasize the importance of continual observation of changes in body composition in top level volleyball.