Comparison of the field-based intermittent running fitness test 30-15 and the treadmill multistage incremental test for the assessment of cardiorespiratory fitness in elite handball players

Mohorič, Uroš (author), Šibila, Marko (author), Abazović, Ensar (author), Jovanović, Saša (author), Paravlić, Armin (author)

The aim of the present study was to investigate whether the physiological parameters indicative of cardiorespiratory fitness obtained during the 30-15 intermittent fitness (30-15$_{IFT}$) test and the multistage laboratory treadmill endurance (TR) test differ. Nineteen elite handball players were recruited for the current study and assigned in a cross-over manner to one of two tests to be performed 48 h apart at each visit to the testing facility. The results showed that VO$_{2max}$ (percentage difference [PC] = 6.1%; p = 0.004) and maximal running velocity (V) (PC = 19.4%; p < 0.001) were significantly higher for the 30-15$_{IFT}$ test than that obtained during the TR test. Furthermore, the onset of blood lactate accumulation was shown to be significantly higher for all measures considered to predict it during 30-15$_{IFT}$ compared to TR as follows: VO$_{2max}$ (PC = 12.6%; p = 0.001), running speed (PC = 33.9%; p < 0.001), and maximal heart rate (PC = 7.5%; p < 0.001). The current study highlights the importance of sport-specific testing, particularly for measuring individual cardiorespiratory fitness in elite handball players, as TR may underestimate crucial variables used for both diagnostics and training prescription.

• Language: English
• Keywords: maximal running speed, aerobic endurance, aerobic incremental field test, laboratory treadmill test, VO$_{2max}$
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FŠ - Faculty of Sport
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2022
• Number of pages: 10 str.
• Numbering: Vol. 19, iss. 6, art. 3535
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-137535
• UDC: 796.012.12
• ISSN on article: 1660-4601
• DOI: 10.3390/ijerph19063535
• COBISS.SI-ID: 101362691
• Publication date in RUL: 21.06.2022

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: International journal of environmental research and public health
• Shortened title: Int. j. environ. res. public health
• Publisher: MDPI
• ISSN: 1660-4601
• COBISS.SI-ID: 1818965

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• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.
• Licensing start date: 16.03.2022

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: največja hitrost teka, aerobna vzdržljivost, VO$_{2max}$, tek, aerobika, kineziologija, telesna pripravljenost

Projects

• Funder: ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
• Project number: P5-0147
• Name: Kineziologija monostrukturnih, polistrukturnih in konvencionalnih športov