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The objective this study was to verify the anthropometric and body fat of students nine 14 years, of both sexes, the Aracaju city, Sergipe, Brazil. The study was a cross-sectional study was sample of 758 individuals (52.6% female) and age 9-14 years enrolled in public school network. Were collected anthropometric information, as mass and height, triceps and subscapular skinfold and waist and hip circumference, to calculate the Body Mass Index (BMI), Body Fat percentage (BF%) and Waist-Hip Ratio (WHR). Descriptive statistics was calculated for media and standard deviation and percentiles 3%, 50% and 97%, for males and females. There was high percentage of subjects with BMI (23.7%) and %BF (26.3%) up to recommended for literature. In Addition, as girls showed results in more to relationship boys in the variables: mass (44,0kg vs 42,7kg) and stature (vs. 1,51cm 1,50cm), waist (66,6cm x 66,5cm) and hip circumference (84,3cm x 80,4cm), triceps (15,4cm x 12,2cm) and subscapular skinfold (12.5 cm x 9.5 cm), BMI (18.9 kg/m2 vs 18.4 kg/m2) and %BF (22.6 vs. 18.1). However, only in WHR was observed superior results for males (0.79 vs 0.82) in the schools. There has been importance of strategies creation to prevent weight gain in this population, how to avoid instruments paragraph harm to health. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

(1) Background: the present study aimed to evaluate the effect of different types of warm-ups on the strength and skin temperature of Paralympic powerlifting athletes. (2) Methods: the participants were 15 male Paralympic powerlifting athletes. The effects of three different types of warm-up (without warm-up (WW), traditional warm-up (TW), or stretching warm-up (SW)) were analyzed on static and dynamic strength tests as well as in the skin temperature, which was monitored by thermal imaging. (3) Results: no differences in the dynamic and static indicators of the force were shown in relation to the different types of warm-ups. No significant differences were found in relation to peak torque (p = 0.055, F = 4.560, η2p = 0.246 medium effect), and one-repetition maximum (p = 0.139, F = 3.191, η2p = 0.186, medium effect) between the different types of warm-ups. In the thermographic analysis, there was a significant difference only in the pectoral muscle clavicular portion between the TW (33.04 ± 0.71 °C) and the WW (32.51 ± 0.74 °C) (p = 0.038). The TW method also presented slightly higher values than the SW and WW in the pectoral muscles sternal portion and the deltoid anterior portion, but with p-value > 0.05. (4) Conclusions: the types of warm-ups studied do not seem to interfere with the performance of Paralympic Powerlifting athletes. However, the thermal images showed that traditional warm-up best meets the objectives expected for this preparation phase. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]