A fitness performance test for school children and its correlation with physical working capacity and maximal oxygen uptake

GR Cumming, R Keynes - Canadian Medical Association Journal, 1967 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Abstract The Canadian Association for Health, Physical Education and Recreation fitness
test (CAHPER test) composed of six items was compared to two laboratory tests of …

Fitness performance tests and their relationship to the maximal oxygen uptake of adults.

V Drake, G Jones, JR Brown… - Canadian Medical …, 1968 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Maximal Oxygen Uptake of Adults Page 1 844 Drake and others: Fitness Performance Tests
Canad. Med. Ass. J. Nov. 2, 1968, vol. 99 Fitness Performance Tests and Their Relationship …

A comparison of the PWC170 and 20-MST tests of aerobic fitness in adolescent schoolchildren.

CA Boreham, VJ Paliczka, AK Nichols - The Journal of sports …, 1990 - europepmc.org
The aim of this study was to compare the validity of two field tests of aerobic fitness for
predicting maximal oxygen uptake (VO2max) in a group of adolescent schoolchildren …

Functional aerobic capacity and body size.

WT Houlsby - Archives of disease in childhood, 1986 - adc.bmj.com
An endurance treadmill exercise test protocol of two minute stages of increasing speed and
gradient has been designed and evaluated for children under 10 years of age. There was a …

An investigation of the relationship between maximum aerobic work capacity and physical fitness in twelve-to fifteen-year-old boys

KF Metz, JF Alexander - Research Quarterly. American Association …, 1970 - Taylor & Francis
The purpose of this investigation was to determine the relationship between maximum work
capacity and physical fitness items from the AAHPER Youth Fitness Test, the McCloy …

[CITATION][C] The physical working capacity of normal school children: I. California

FH Adams, LM Linde, H Miyake - Pediatrics, 1961 - publications.aap.org
The physical working capacity was determined for 243 California school children of both
sexes, ranging in age from 6 to 14 years. Working capacity correlated well with the surface …

[CITATION][C] An appraisal of exercise fitness tests

LM Linde - Pediatrics, 1963 - publications.aap.org
We have attempted to define fitness for the purposes of this symposium as medical or health
fitness. In this context, our main interests include cardiovascular, respiratory and chemical …

V. A simple method of evaluating fitness in boys: the step test

JR Gallagher, L Brouha - The Yale journal of biology and medicine, 1943 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Results Part A: Preliminary Test. The purpose of the preliminary test was to determine the
validity of our method of adjusting the work load to the various sizes and ages of individuals …

An evaluation of five indices of physical working capacity in children.

RH DuRANT, EV Dover, BS Alpert - Medicine and science in sports …, 1983 - europepmc.org
The purposes of this study were 1) to analyze race, sex, and body surface area (BSA)
differences in the mean work to exhaustion index, maximal endurance index, rate-pressure …

Aerobic capacity of adolescents.

HG Knuttgen - Journal of Applied Physiology, 1967 - journals.physiology.org
METHODS All test subjects (N= Igo) were students aged 15 through I 8 years in a public
high school of Milton, Massachusetts. It is a Caucasian population of almost exclusively …