title: Reliability of a 3-min all-out Arm Crank Ergometer Exercise Test.
abstract: The 3-min all-out test is a well-established exercise test developed for cycling ergometry. However, no such test exists in arm cranking. Thus the aim of this study was to investigate the test-retest reliability of a 3-min all-out exercise test on an arm crank ergometer. 21 healthy participants (9 male and 12 female, age 34±11 years, body mass 69.6±11.1 kg and height 175.5±6.9 cm) twice performed a 3-min all-out exercise test on an arm crank ergometer separated by 7 days. Peak power (PP), mean power (MP), fatigue index (FI), time to peak (TTP) and total work (TW) were assessed to detect test-retest reliability. PP, MP, FI and TW showed an excellent intra-class correlation coefficient (ICC) ranging from 0.940 to 0.984. Only TTP showed very low reliability with an ICC of 0.379. The results from this test-retest analysis showed that all parameters except the TTP were highly reliable in a 3-min all-out exercise test on an arm crank ergometer in able-bodied participants.
authors.affiliation: Swiss Paraplegic Centre, Sports Medicine, Nottwil, Switzerland.
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Flueck
authors.affiliation: Swiss Paraplegic Centre, Sports Medicine, Nottwil, Switzerland.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lienert
authors.affiliation: Swiss Paraplegic Centre, Sports Medicine, Nottwil, Switzerland.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Schaufelberger
authors.affiliation: Swiss Paraplegic Centre, Sports Medicine, Nottwil, Switzerland.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Perret
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001132:Arm / Q000502:physiology*; D005080:Exercise Test / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D018763:Muscle Fatigue / Q000502:physiology; D005082:Physical Exertion / Q000502:physiology*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D055815:Young Adult