No effect of weight cycling on the post-career BMI of weight class elite athletes.
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International audience ; BACKGROUND: Repetitions of pre-competition weight-loss diets done by athletes participating in weight class sports can be regarded as periods of weight cycling. The aim of the present study is to identify the long term post-career (22 years) evolutionary profile of athletes' BMI after such weight cycling. METHODS: One hundred and thirty-six retired French athletes who participated in major international competitions in weight class sports (rowers, wrestlers, boxers, and judokas) were included. Former and current body mass, height, dietary characteristics during the career (annual frequency, amount of weight lost), current physical activity, and answers on the eating-attitude test were collected by phone interview (consistency was tested by comparison with measured weight). We performed ANOVA tests for comparison between groups (sport, dieting), post-hoc tests (Bonferroni test) to identify differences within groups. BMI's changes were treated using a mixed model. RESULTS: The recorded weight changes did not depend upon time since retirement. Between 18 y and 50 y, athletes' BMI increased by 3.2 kg/m2 compared to the 4.2 kg/m2 increase in the general population. This increase was independent of the number of diets during the career. Retired athletes declared a mean weekly physical activity of 4.8 h +/- 4.3. The eating-attitude test showed low scores for all sports without any correlation to diet characteristics. CONCLUSION: Weight cycling during an athletic career does not induce a massive weight gain after retirement, probably due to the high level of physical activity still practiced after retirement by these athletes.
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No effect of weight cycling on the post-career BMI of weight class elite athletes.
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Marquet, Laurie-Anne ; Brown, Morgan ; Tafflet, Muriel ; Nassif, Hala ; Mouraby, Rémy ; Bourhaleb, Samir ; Toussaint, Jean-François ; Desgorces, François-Denis ; Institut de recherche biomédicale et d’épidémiologie du sport (IRMES - EA 7329) ; Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5 (UPD5)-Institut national du sport, de l'expertise et de la performance (INSEP) ; UFR, STAPS ; Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5 (UPD5)-PRES Sorbonne Paris Cité ; Paris-Centre de Recherche Cardiovasculaire (PARCC - UMR-S U970) ; Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou APHP (HEGP) ; Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Hôpitaux Universitaires Paris Ouest - Hôpitaux Universitaires Île de France Ouest (HUPO)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Hôpitaux Universitaires Paris Ouest - Hôpitaux Universitaires Île de France Ouest (HUPO)-Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5 (UPD5)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM) ; Centre d'Investigation en Médecine du sport (CIMS) ; Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Hôtel-Dieu ; We thank the Centre National de Développement du Sport, and the Ministry of Sport for financial contribution. |
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Zeitschrift: | ISSN: 1471-2458, 2013 |
Veröffentlichung: | HAL CCSD ; BioMed Central, 2013 |
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DOI: | 10.1186/1471-2458-13-510 |
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