RELIABILITY OF FOUR STRENGTH TESTS APPLIED TO GROWING BOYS AND GIRLS
10.7600/jspfsm1949.34.23
- VernacularTitle:発育期における筋力測定の再現性
- Author:
TOSHIHIRO ISHIKO
;
HIDENORI ASAI
;
IKUO TAKAOKA
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
growth;
reliability;
strength test;
sex difference
- From:Japanese Journal of Physical Fitness and Sports Medicine
1985;34(Supplement):23-31
- CountryJapan
- Language:Japanese
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Abstract:
Boys and girls of elementary school (1 st, 3 rd and 6 th-grades), junior high school (2 nd-grade) and senior high school (2 nd-grade) were tested for 2 days to examine the reliability of grip strength, back strength, arm strength and leg strength.
The following results were obtained:
1. When elementary school boys performed three trials of these four items, over half boys recorded maximal value up to the second trial.
2. The reliability of tests applied to the left and right sides (grip strength, arm strength and leg strength) was not different each other.
3. In boys and girls attending elementary, junior- and senior high schools the reliability of grip strength was highest and the next was back strength.
4. Grip strength had statistically significant relationship to the other three items. Thus grip strength is considered to be the representative of four strength tests for growing boys and girls.
