Test-retest reliability of physical fitness tests among young athletes: The FITescola
| Autor: | Miguel Peralta, Duarte Henriques-Neto, Adilson Marques, Cláudia S. Minderico, Luís B. Sardinha |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Multi-stage fitness test
Male medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Physiology Injuries prevention Concordance Performance Physical fitness 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology Young athletes 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Physiology (medical) medicine Humans Child Reliability (statistics) biology business.industry Athletes Reproducibility of Results Cardiorespiratory fitness 030229 sport sciences General Medicine biology.organism_classification Reliability Test (assessment) Sprint Physical Fitness Physical therapy Exercise Test Female business |
| Zdroj: | Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP) instacron:RCAAP |
| ISSN: | 1475-097X |
| Popis: | Copyright © 2020 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. All rights reserved Monitoring physical fitness in young athletes is essential to improve physical performance, identify talents and develop injury prevention programs. The aim of this investigation was to analyse the reliability of the physical fitness tests from the FITescola® battery in young athletes with different sports backgrounds and competition levels. Participants comprised of 138 young athletes (boys n = 92) aged 9 and 18 years old. Eight physical fitness tests assessing six components of physical fitness were performed: cardiorespiratory fitness (PACER); upper body muscular fitness (push‐up); flexibility (sit and reach); lower‐body muscular fitness (horizontal and vertical jump); agility (4 × 10 shuttle run); and speed (sprint at 20 m and 40 m). Each test was performed twice, with a one‐week interval (7 days) between duplicate tests. No differences between duplicate tests were found (p > .05), except for the speed at 20 m in boys (p < .001) and speed at 40 m in girls (p = .006). The battery of tests had good or excellent reliability and concordance of the ICC between the two trials (ICC ≥ 0.75) with exception for the 20 m speed run in girls that presented moderate reliability (ICC = 0.57). The Bland–Altman plots showed high reliability for all the fitness tests for both sexes. Hence, The FITescola® battery may be a novel tool to assess the physical fitness of large groups of young athletes from different sports backgrounds. FCT—Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia within the unit I&D 472. Grant Number: UID/DTP/00447/2019 |
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