For those who participate in this project, it is vital that measurements be triple-checked for accuracy. Accept the median as final answers. Thanks you.

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Most of us are familiar with somatotyping, in that a person leans toward an endomorphic, mesomorphic, or ectomorphic frame and dimensions (relative to height and weight). The I.A.R.T. is encouraging advanced trainees to partake in an extensive, world-wide somatotype research project, a database that will show medians and means of body types of advanced trainees. We are looking for those individuals with at least five years of serious exercise experience. E-mail us the following statistics/data before the end of 2005... remember, this research project will be successful only with your participation; results will be presented in the Journal of Applied Fitness on this site.

1. Name (optional)

2. Date of birth

3. Sex

4. Country + zip/postal code

5. Height

6. Weight

7. Skinfolds (triceps, subscapular, calf, and supraspinale/formerly known as anterior suprailiac)

8. Exercise Habits (whether intensity is low, moderate or high; frequency/days per week; duration of each exercise session on average in minutes)

9. Fully Flexed and tensed upper arm held horizontally.

10. Calf girth at thickest part

11. Bone breadths of humerus and femur. Biepicondylar breadth of the humerus of the right arm. The width between the medial and lateral epicondyles of the humerus, with the elbow bent at 90-degrees. Apply the caliper (or have someone eyeball it as accurately as possible with a straight edge ruler, although calipers are far more accurate) at an angle approximately bisecting the angle of the elbow. Similarly, measure the biepicondylar breadth of the right femur, bent at a right angle (in a seated position). If a ruler is used, it is vital to triple-check the results, although the Tommy 3 bone caliper should be considered since they allow for tissue compression against the bones (available at www.RossCraft.ca).

12. Exercise methodology: Choose powerlifting, Athletic strength training, bodybuilding/sculpting, general conditioning/fitness, aerobic-based, or Olympic lifting.

13. Indicate whether or not you had a history of sports performance drug use, regardless of being a one-time or multiple-time user (this factor does affect changes in somatotype).

Take measurements on the right side of the body. It is vital that the measurements be as accurate as possible, to the millimeter or sixteenth of an inch. Get your clients involved, your friends, distribute this message on bulletin boards, and have them forward their anthropometric information to info@exercisecertification.com.
E-mails will NOT be sold or used for marketing or spam purposes.

Brian D. Johnston