Abstract
Monitoring of morphological status is necessary because human body structure is very important and at the same time biologically very changeable category that can be influenced by many external and internal factors. The aim of this study is a structural analysis of current state of body composition for purposes of establishing initial body composition model of Abu Dhabi police personnel. Measurement procedures have been conducted under the monitoring of Strategic Management & Performance Improvement Department, Sports Activity Section, Abu Dhabi police, in the gym for police officers with the help of the machine In Body 720. The sample size was 59 male police officers of different age and rank. The main characteristics of the sample were: age 31.53±9.42 years, height 173.08±6.13cm and body weight 80.10±11.50kg. Investigated variables were: height (H), body weight (BW), body mass index (BMI), body fat mass (BFM), percent of body fat (PBF), skeletal muscle mass (SMM) and percent of skeletal muscle mass (PSMM). Statistically, the results were calculated by descriptive statistics and cluster analysis. The results have shown that prevalence of the overweighed according to the WHO was 59.06%, prevalence of obesity according to ACE was 49.15% and 66.10% of the sample had under average PSMM.
Highlights
Police officers have a wide range of responsibilities which include long hours in seated position at the office desk, traffic and walking patrols, securing individuals and facilities, public manifestations and gatherings, and many others
The results have shown that prevalence of the overweighed according to the World Health Organization (WHO) was 59.06%, prevalence of obesity according to American Council on Exercise (ACE) was 49.15% and 66.10% of the sample had under average PSMM
Based on these results it can be reliably said that there are no extreme individual results and that the distribution of data is normal for the variables of interest for this study – H, body weight (BW), percent of body fat (PBF), body mass index (BMI) and PSMM
Summary
Police officers have a wide range of responsibilities which include long hours in seated position at the office desk, traffic and walking patrols, securing individuals and facilities, public manifestations and gatherings, and many others. Implementing rules and laws among people requires an enormous amount of analytical thinking and emotional control. These are important to take into account while they directly affect the levels of stress that each in the task force is exposed to. In addition to the above mentioned, we have to take into account the physical effort that those men are experiencing Their physical effort can vary from situation to situation, from bare minimum to a close to, if not, absolute maximum.[3, 4] the selection process for this profession and the department control of health and physical status of policemen are very important processes during their career. The first, very visible indicators of health and physical status can be detected by regular follow up on body composition.[5]
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