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A sportsperson should be encouraged to pursue sports suited to their body type and skills. Assessing body shape There are a variety of techniques available to assess body composition, media including weighing, skinfold measurements, underwater weighing, bioelectrical impedence, and DEXA (dual energy x-ray absorptiometry). The only media truly accurate way of assessing body composition requires the subject to be dead and this is obviously impractical! Other methods media such as bioelectrical impedence and DEXA are not practical for routine monitoring due to costs and inherent errors. A combination of weighing, skinfold and girth measurements is the most practical field measurement for assessing a sportsperson's relative proportions of muscle and fat and for monitoring changes over a period of time. Any sportsperson concerned about body fat levels should be encouraged to have a professional assessment by a sports dietitian or exercise physiologist.
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