PURPOSE: THE AGING PROCESS IS CHARACTERIZED BY A DECLINE IN MOST PHYSIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS. THE DECLINE IN BOTH FAT-FREE MASS (FFM) AND MUSCLE STRENGTH (I.E., SARCOPENIA: PARTICULARLY MUSCLE LOSS WHICH MAY LEAD TO SARCOPENIA) IS A WELL-DOCUMENTED ALTERATION WITH ADVANCING AGE. THE SARCOPENIA HAS BEEN DESCRIBED IN BOTH ELDERLY MEN AND women. ADDITIONALLY, THIS MAY RESULT IN OSTEOSARCOPENIA, THE CONCURRENT LOSS OF BONE AND MUSCLE MASS. THE PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY WAS TO INVESTIGATE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SARCOPENIC INDEX, BODY COMPOSITION AND MUSCULAR STRENGTH IN postmenopausal women.METHODOLOGY: THIS INVESTIGATION WAS IN THE FORM OF A DESCRIPTIVE – CORRELATION STUDY, SO 53 postmenopausal women (57.56±5.21 YRS) TOOK PART IN THIS STUDY. BODY COMPOSITION AND APPENDICULAR FAT-FREE MASS (AFFM) WERE MEASURED BY DXA. SARCOPENIA INDEX WAS DEFINED AS AN AFFM DIVIDED BY HEIGHT SQUARED £5.45 KG/M2. UPPER AND LOWER BODY STRENGTH WAS MEASURED VIA ONE-REPETITION MAXIMUM (1RM) ON THE CHEST PRESS AND SQUAT SMITH MACHINES. HANDGRIP (HG) STRENGTH WAS ASSESSED USING A HG DYNAMOMETER. DATA ANALYSIS INCLUDED DESCRIPTIVE AND INFERENTIAL (PEARSON-CORRELATION COEFFICIENT) STATISTICS WAS DONE USING SPSS-18 SOFTWARE.RESULTS: THE RESULTS OF THIS STUDY SHOWED THAT THERE WERE SIGNIFICANT RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN REDUCING SARCOPENIA INDEX AND BMI & CHEST PRESS (P≤0.05), WHILE THERE WERE RELATIONSHIPS, BUT NOT SIGNIFICANT, BETWEEN SARCOPENIA INDEX AND LOWER BODY (SQUAT SMITH) & HG STRENGTHS (P>0.05).CONCLUSIONS: THESE RESULTS SUGGEST THAT BMI HAS A POSITIVE RELATIONSHIP WITH THE REDUCED SARCOPENIA INDEX. IN OTHER WORDS, IT IS LIKELY THAT AN INCREASE IN WEIGHT AND/OR FFM, LEADING TO A REDUCTION OF THE AGE-RELATED SARCOPENIA INDICES.