ANTHROPOMETRY
ANTHROPOMETRY
ANTHROPOMETRY
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Somatotype data can be statistically analyzed.<br />
Proportionality is the relationship of body parts, one to<br />
another or to the whole body.<br />
Middle distance runners tend to be long in the legs and<br />
arms, short in the trunk and narrow in the hips. “Long”,<br />
“short” and “narrow” are subjective evaluations based<br />
on some kind of metaphorical model of a human.<br />
A simple device for achieving this type of comparison is<br />
the unisex Phantom devised by Ross and Wilson and<br />
updated by Ross and Ward