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🌍 Tra i docenti VACOM: Prof. @bradschoenfeldphd ! 💪

👥 36 posti disponibili
📅 Pre-immatricolazioni entro il 13 novembre 2026
🎓 7 CFU | Diploma UniPD | Open Badge

🔗 Info e pre-immatricolazioni al link in bio

#VACOM #UniPD #BradSchoenfeld #BodyComposition #StrengthTraining SportsNutrition taken in Technogym Village by @bodycomposition.hub

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16 days ago

🦴 BIG BONES = BIG MUSCLES

(What height and weight don’t tell you)

A 2025 MRI study by Riem et al. shows why height, body weight, BMI are bad predictors of muscle potential.

Height is 1D. Muscle is 3D.
You can be tall and still have a small skeletal frame for muscle attachment 📏

Body weight is “dirty”.
It mixes muscle, fat and water, hiding your real structure ⚖️

Using full-body MRI, researchers found that bone volume (especially the femur 🦴) is the best predictor of muscle mass (R² ≈ 0.85).
Height (R² ≈ 0.58), weight (R² ≈ 0.49) and BMI perform much worse (R² ≈ 0.02).

When muscle is compared to bone size, men and women show the SAME muscle potential.
The apparent sex difference disappears because it was caused by body size, not biology 👫

Your skeleton is the blueprint.
Training is the construction. 🏗️

Stop judging muscle potential by height or scale weight.
Start respecting your frame ⚡️ by @bodycomposition.hub

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9 months ago

🎓 Dalla valutazione della composizione corporea alla pianificazione di nutrizione e allenamento.

Sono aperte le pre-iscrizioni a VACOM 2026/2027, il Corso di Alta Formazione dell’Università di Padova.

Un percorso di lezioni, laboratori ed esercitazioni pratiche per imparare a utilizzare le principali metodiche di valutazione e interpretarne i risultati: DXA, risonanza magnetica, BOD POD e modello 4C, calorimetria indiretta, antropometria, bioimpedenziometria ed ecografia.

Il corso si rivolge a studenti, laureati e professionisti interessati alla composizione corporea e alle sue applicazioni in nutrizione, salute e performance.

📅 Febbraio–aprile 2027
📍 Padova, Technogym Village a Cesena e online
🎓 7 CFU | 36 posti previsti
⏳ Pre-iscrizioni entro il 13 novembre 2026

👉 Scorri le immagini per consultare programma e calendario.
🔗 Requisiti e modalità di ammissione al link in bio.

#VACOM #UniversitàDiPadova #ComposizioneCorporea #Nutrizione #ScienzeMotorie taken in Università degli Studi di Padova - Facoltà di Ingegneria by @bodycomposition.hub

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21 days ago

🎯 Tavola rotonda gratuita dedicata alla preparazione ai concorsi delle Forze dell’Ordine.

📅 mercoledì 30 settembre 2026 – ore 19:00 🇮🇹 🕰️

Interverranno:

🧪 @nutrizionista.tattico ⁩: i test e le principali sfide tra nutrizione e allenamento

🏃 @giuseppe_coratella_ph.d ⁩: la preparazione atletica

🥗 @dr_antonio_sedita_nutrition ⁩: le strategie nutrizionali

🎙️ Modera: @francesco_campa_phd

💻 Live Zoom
📩 Chiedi il link in DM by @bodycomposition.hub

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14 days ago

💧One litre of water does not build one kilogram of muscle, but DXA may make it look that way.

💪 Hydration can also influence bioimpedance estimates. This is why DXA assessments focus on appendicular lean soft tissue (ALST) to estimate muscle mass, rather than whole-body lean mass.

🩻 ALST is also integrated with strength and physical performance when assessing sarcopenia.

Standardize before you measure. Never interpret one number in isolation.

#DXA #BodyComposition #Bioimpedance #BIA #Sarcopenia MuscleMass LeanMass SportsScience NutritionScience ClinicalNutrition by @bodycomposition.hub

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🦴 “I’m just big-boned”… maybe there’s something to it after all! 😄

In a cross-sectional study of 52 professional long-distance runners (32 Kenyan and 20 European athletes), greater skeletal breadths were strongly associated with larger corrected limb girths, a useful anthropometric proxy for muscularity.

Femur breadth was associated with corrected thigh girth (r = 0.66), while bimalleolar breadth was associated with corrected calf girth (r = 0.72).

In other words, athletes with a more robust skeletal frame also tended to show greater muscularity.

So, next time someone says “I was born with big bones”… maybe they have a point. 😂🦴💪

📖 Structural and Potentially Modifiable Anthropometric Traits in Professional Kenyan and European Long-Distance Runners

🔗 https://www.mdpi.com/2411-5142/11/3/292

#SportsScience #Anthropometry #Muscularity #BodyComposition #RunningScience LongDistanceRunning

@fabrizio_spataro_nutrizionista @francisholway @camiseewald @jime.nutri @francesco_campa_phd taken in Kenya, Africa by @bodycomposition.hub

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2 months ago

¿Seguimos estimando la masa grasa con ecuaciones desarrolladas hace más de 50 años?

En este nuevo estudio desarrollamos y validamos dos ecuaciones antropométricas calibradas con DXA en 515 adultos de España e Italia.

Los nuevos modelos, basados en 4 y 8 pliegues, explicaron hasta el 82% de la variabilidad de la masa grasa medida por DXA, con un error absoluto medio cercano a 2 kg y sin una subestimación sistemática.

En cambio, las ecuaciones clásicas analizadas subestimaron la masa grasa entre 2,1 y 11,5 kg en la muestra de validación.

Estos modelos no buscan sustituir al DXA, sino ofrecer una alternativa más actual para la investigación, el deporte y el seguimiento de la composición corporal.

Comenta GRASA y te enviaremos gratuitamente el Excel con ambas ecuaciones listo para utilizar. by @bodycomposition.hub

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2 months ago

❓ARE ANTHROPOMETRY AND BIA REALLY “DOUBLY INDIRECT” METHODS?

For decades, anthropometry and bioelectrical impedance analysis have been labeled as doubly indirect methods.

But is this always true?

📌 1. Body composition is much more than fat mass and fat-free mass.

According to Wang’s five-level model, body composition includes both body mass components and whole-body variables.

📌 2. Not everything we study is a body mass component.

Whole-body variables include body dimensions (e.g., height, lengths, body volume) and directly measurable variables related to body composition (e.g., skinfold thicknesses and phase angle).

📌 3. Some variables can be measured, others can only be estimated.

Body mass components are estimated through models.

Whole-body variables can be measured directly.

📌 4. This is the key message.

The same method (e.g., anthropometry or BIA) can be used either to measure or to estimate, depending on the parameter of interest.

👉 A method is not inherently direct or indirect.

Its classification depends on what you are assessing.

📖 Read the review article, now published Open Access in Reviews in Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders. by @bodycomposition.hub

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3 months ago

LOS CUATRO CANDIDATOS DE NUESTRA CANDIDATURA HAN SIDO ELEGIDOS!

Hoy comienza una nueva etapa para ISAK.

Nos llena de orgullo compartir que los cuatro integrantes de nuestro equipo han recibido el respaldo de la comunidad internacional para asumir la Vicepresidencia y tres puestos en el Comité Directivo de ISAK.

## Vicepresidencia

🇪🇸 **Raquel Vaquero Cristóbal**
🗳️ **615 votos** (**82,6%** de los votos válidos)

## Comité Directivo

🇦🇷 **Nicolás Baglietto**
🗳️ **521 votos** (**62,3%**)

🇧🇷 **Paulo Lague Sehl**
🗳️ **492 votos** (**58,9%**)

🇮🇹 **Francesco Campa**
🗳️ **484 votos** (**57,9%**)

Queremos agradecer sinceramente a todos los miembros que participaron en este proceso electoral y depositaron su confianza en nuestra candidatura.

Este respaldo nos honra y, al mismo tiempo, nos compromete.

Seguiremos trabajando para construir una ISAK más accesible, innovadora, conectada entre regiones y comprometida con la excelencia científica, la formación y el desarrollo de oportunidades para todos sus miembros.

Gracias por acompañarnos.

Ahora comienza el verdadero trabajo. by @bodycomposition.hub

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3 months ago

What happens when muscle meets bone? 🦴 💪

Had a great time discussing the muscle-to-bone ratio with @francisholway , @baroncini.giulia , and @francesco_campa_phd ♥️

Thanks to everyone who joined the conversation @nicolasbaglietto and shared their point of view! taken in Around The World by @bodycomposition.hub

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4 months ago

We are proud to see our paper featured on the cover of the latest volume of Sports, a Q1 journal in Sport Sciences.

It is especially rewarding to see recognition for an approach that we strongly believe in: integrating complementary assessment methods to obtain a more comprehensive understanding of athletes’ characteristics.

By combining anthropometry to investigate structural traits with techniques such as BIA and ultrasound (US) to assess body composition characteristics that can be influenced by nutrition and training, we aim to bridge the gap between morphology and adaptability.

We are grateful for this recognition and look forward to continuing our work toward more integrated and practical athlete assessment models.

#SportsScience #Anthropometry #BIA #Ultrasound #BodyComposition AthleteMonitoring Sports Research by @bodycomposition.hub

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4 months ago

Em 24 de Junho iniciará o processo de eleições e a sua participação é fundamental para seguirmos construindo o futuro da ISAK!

Anote essa data em sua agenda e salve esse post pra lembrar!

Somente membros ISAK ativos podem votar, e se você é um deles e confia em nosso trabalho, precisamos de seu forte apoio!

Juntos (Raquel, Eu - Paulo, Nicolás e Francesco) podemos construir uma ISAK mais conectada, inovadora e preparada para os desafios do futuro.

🗳️ Como votar nas eleições da ISAK?

Se você é um membro ISAK ativo (Nível 1, 2, 3 ou 4), poderá participar das eleições, seguindo poucos passos.

Recordo que cada membro ISAK conta com 4 votos:
✔ 1 voto para Vicepresidencia.
✔ 3 votos para candidatos ao Conselho Executivo

Para apoiar a nossa equipe, pedimos que utilize seus votos da seguinte forma:

✅Vicepresidencia: Raquel Vaquero. 🇪🇸
✅Comitê Ejecutivo: Paulo Lague Sehl, Nicolás Baglietto y Franceso Campa. 🇧🇷 🇦🇷 🇮🇹

Acesse a Área de Membros, acesse “Elecciones”, selecione “Votaciones”, registre seus 4 votos e confirme sua eleição.

🗳️ A votação inicia em 24 de Junho de 2026 e termina dia 1 de Julho, às 10:00 da manhã no Brasil. Não deixe para o último dia!

Não esqueça de votar, pois somente membros ISAK podem votar e, se você é um deles, o futuro da ISAK depende de você também!🚀

#nutricaoesportiva #nutricionista #antropometrista #isakglobal #antropometria by @bodycomposition.hub

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