title: A multistage shuttle swim test to assess aerobic fitness in competitive water polo players.
abstract: A 10m multistage shuttle swim test (MSST) was designed for the assessment of aerobic fitness of competitive water polo players. Test-retest reliability was determined using a sample of 22 female and 22 male trained water polo players. An intraclass correlation coefficient of 0.99 (p>0.05) was calculated between the two test scores. The technical error of measurement for the test was 2.3 shuttles or 5.0%. The validity of the test was determined using a sample of 13 female and 12 male water polo players. A validation correlation coefficient of 0.88 resulted between the number of shuttles completed during the MSST and VO2max [litres/body surface area/ minute (l x BSA-1 x min-1)] measured during an incremental tethered swim test to exhaustion. A stepwise multiple regression revealed that VO2max (l x BSA-1 x min-1) accounted for approximately 78% of the MSST variance. It was concluded that the 10m multistage shuttle swim test is a reliable and valid field test of aerobic fitness for use with trained water polo players.
authors.affiliation: Western Australian Institute of Sport, Claremont, Australia.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Rechichi
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Dawson
authors.forename: S R
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Lawrence
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000332:Aerobiosis; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D003163:Competitive Behavior; D005080:Exercise Test / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006339:Heart Rate; D006801:Humans; D019344:Lactic Acid / Q000097:blood; D008297:Male; D010101:Oxygen Consumption; D010809:Physical Fitness; D012044:Regression Analysis; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D018709:Statistics, Nonparametric; D013550:Swimming / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: D019344:Lactic Acid