The Robinson Protocol: a treadmill anaerobic performance test.
The current investigation was designed to further examine the reliability of the Robinson protocol, which is a run-to-exhaustion treadmill test. Robinson (10) originally examined this protocol with 5 subjects. The significance of the initial exploratory study was the impetus for expanding the study to examine the reliability of the protocol with a larger sample. Fifteen male subjects participated in 3 trial runs on the treadmill. The first trial was a modified McConnell (7) test to determine the aerobic capacity of each subject. The second and third trials were identical Robinson protocols (10). The first trial run mean, in seconds (262.04 +/- 74.50), was not significantly different from the second trial run mean (257.30 +/- 72.65), p = 0.526 (2 tailed). As expected, trial 1 and trial 2 were highly correlated (intraclass) (r = 0.927, p < 0.001). These results provide additional support for the hypothesis that the Robinson protocol with a greater subject pool is a reliable protocol that can be used in research studies interested in examining various physiological interventions or anaerobic training.
Bridgewater State College, Department of Movement Arts, Health Promotion and Leisure Studies, Massachusetts 02325, USA. ERobinson@bridgew.edu
Ellyn M
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Robinson
Louise B
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Graham
Samuel A
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Headley
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D015308:Anaerobic Threshold; D002985:Clinical Protocols; D015444:Exercise / Q000502:physiology*; D005080:Exercise Test / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012420:Running / Q000502:physiology