2018 Volume 64 Issue Suppl.1 Pages 37-39
This study aims to research body compositions for long-term judo practitioners. Exercise habit effects good influence for health condition from many earlier studies’ results. By the way, judo is one of the Olympic sports and Japanese traditional sports. One of the judo’s characteristics is that there are many old-aged players who part in competition. They are considered to possess long-term exercise habits. Therefore, we think that they keep good health condition.
We conduct a survey for long-term judo practitioners body compositions by Inbody430 from Inbody Japan Inc. Subjects are competitors who part in 2017 Veterans Judo Championships held in Wakayama prefecture.
In results, 11 items are surveyed from Inbody430. Survey data was collected from 121 participants aged 30-81 years. Analysis consisted of one-way ANOVA analysis of variance in order to compare body compositions by age group. From ANOVA, judo players’ percent body fat is increasing as age level elevation older.
But, this old-aged players percent body fat is too lower than many similar studies’ results that surveyed old-aged person’s percent body fat. By this reason, long-term judo player may keep good health comdition. And, playing judo for a long time may have good effect of one’s health.
