Possibility to use standard methods for assessing ideal body weight in student-athletes

The article discusses various popular and widely used approaches to the calculation of ideal body weight (IBW) in the field of physical culture and spot. Purpose: to evaluate the possibility of using various calculation methods to determine the IBW of student-athletes of various sports. Materials and methods. We examined 65 student-athletes involved in martial arts, game and cyclic sports aged 19 to 25 years. An anthropometric study was carried out, IBW values were calculated using 12 formulas, and the component composition of the body was determined. From most of the formulas for calculating the IBW, which are variations in the ratio of length and body weight, the Borngardt formula was distinguished, which takes into account not only the height, but also the value of the chest girth at rest and had noticeable correlations with other indices (from r = 0.53 to r = 0.62 at p