Title
Sprint performance: The reliability of a run to exhaustion
Publication Date
2001
Document Type
Article
Abstract
This investigation was conducted and designed to determine the reliability of a run to exhaustion treadmill protocol; the Robinson protocol. Male subjects from Springfield College (n = 5) participated in three trial runs on the treadmill. The first trial was a modified McConnell maximum oxygen consumption test to determine the aerobic capacity of each subject. The second and third trials were identical run to exhaustion protocols where the subject warmed-up for 15 min at 75% of VO2max, rested 5 min, and then ran to exhaustion at 100% VO2max (58.97 ml/kg/min±5.25). No significant difference was found (p>0.05) between the two run to exhaustion trials, and the paired samples correlation (p=0.001) was 0.993. Finding that there was no significant difference between trials enables future researchers to utilize the Robinson protocol with confidence that the trials will consistently be the same.
Original Citation
Robinson E.M., Graham L.B., Headley S.A. (2001). Sprint performance: The reliability of a run to exhaustion. Journal of Exercise Physiology Online, 4(2), 6-9.
Virtual Commons Citation
Robinson, Ellyn; Graham, Louise; and Headley, S. A. (2001). Sprint performance: The reliability of a run to exhaustion. In Movement Arts, Health Promotion and Leisure Studies Faculty Publications. Paper 36.
Available at: https://vc.bridgew.edu/mahpls_fac/36