Anthropometric Measurements of the Young National Basketball Team of Montenegro

Faculty for Sport and Physical Education from Niksić continued with the expansion of the elite athletes result bases, and Assist. Prof. Milovan Ljubojevic, PhD and Ivan Vasiljevic, MA, performed measurement of the youth Basketball national team of Montenegro, which is on preparations in Tivat.

"These kind of measurements are particularly important for young athletes in order to verify compliance and development of bone, muscle and fat tissues in the phases of rapid body growth and development, when, due to improper exercise and neglects of certain factors of ripening, there may be negative and harmful, often irreversible changes on the locomotor system and metabolism, "said professor Assist. Prof. Milovan Ljubojević.

Professors at the Faculty for Sport and Physical Education have expressed great satisfaction with the results. The measurements were done with a Tanita measuring scale that enables for athletes to monitor the percentage of fat content in the body structure, the percentage values of muscle mass, bone mass and to monitor the parameters of metabolism. The values of skin folds on some segments of the body were measured as well, said Assist. Prof. Ljubojevic. (University of Montenegro)