Aerobic Capacity Tests
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- Aerobic Capacity Tests
- Direct Gas Analysis
- Subject performs continuous exercise at progressive intensities to exhaustion.
- Expired air is captured by a mask with a tube connected to a flow meter and gas analyser.
- The relative concentrations of oxygen and carbon dioxide in expired air to inspired air are measured.
- Disadvantages
- Maximal test to exhaustion
- Cannot be used with the elderly or those with health conditions
- Access to specialist equipment is required
- Advantages
- Accurate, valid and reliable measure
- Direct objective measurement of VO2 Max
- Test performed during different exercises (e.g. running, cycling, rowing), including laboratory and field settings
- NCF multi-stage fitness test
- Subject performs a continuous 20m shuttle run test at progressive intensities to exhaustion.
- Each 20m shuttle will be timed to an audio cue. the test is over when the subject cannot complete the shuttle in the allotted time.
- A level and a shuttle number will be given which predicts VO2 max from the standardised comparison table.
- Each 20m shuttle will be timed to an audio cue. the test is over when the subject cannot complete the shuttle in the allotted time.
- Advantages
- Large groups can perform the test at the same time.
- Simple and cheap equipment required
- Published tables of VO2 max equivalents
- Disadvantages
- Test is not sport specific (e.g. rowers or cyclists maybe at a disadvantage)
- Cannot be used with the elderly or those with health conditions
- Maximal test to exhaustion limited by subject motivation
- Prediction of VO2 max, not measurement
- Subject performs a continuous 20m shuttle run test at progressive intensities to exhaustion.
- Cooper 12-minute run
- Subject performs continuous running to achieve maximum distance within 12 minutes.
- Usually performed on a 400m running track with cones placed at intervals. time left per lap is called to the performer.
- At the end of the 12 minutes, the test ends and total distance is recorded. This is a maximum intensity test which using a simple calculation can predict VO2 max.
- Disadvantages
- Cannot be used with the elderly or those with health conditions
- Maximal test to exhaustion limited by subject motivation
- Test is not sport specific (e.g. rowers or cyclists maybe at a disadvantage)
- Prediction of VO2 max, not measurement
- Advantages
- Simple and cheap equipment required
- A subject can administer their own test
- published tables of norm data and simple VO2 max calculation
- Large groups can perform the test at the same time in a field-based setting
- Subject performs continuous running to achieve maximum distance within 12 minutes.
- Queen's College step test
- Disadvantages
- Prediction of VO2 max not a measurement
- HR recovery will be affected by prior exercise, food and fluid intake
- Test is not sport specific (e.g. rowers or cyclists maybe at a disadvantage)
- Step height may disadvantage shorter subjects.
- Advantages
- Sub-maximal test
- Simple and cheap equipment required
- HR daily monitored
- published tables of norm data and simple VO2 max calculation
- Subject performs continuous stepping on and off a box 41.3cm high for a period of 3 minutes.
- Steps will be taken at a rate of 23 steps/min for men (96 beats/minute on a metronome) and 22 steps/minute for women (88 beats/minute on a metronome)
- HR is taken five seconds after completing the test for 15 seconds. HR recovery is used to predict VO2 max with a simple equation.
- Steps will be taken at a rate of 23 steps/min for men (96 beats/minute on a metronome) and 22 steps/minute for women (88 beats/minute on a metronome)
- Disadvantages
- Direct Gas Analysis
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