{"title":"Variable Height Step Test Provides Reliable Heart Rate Values During Virtual Cardiorespiratory Fitness Testing","authors":"E. Matthews, F. Horvat, D. Phillips","doi":"10.1080/1091367X.2021.1964507","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The YMCA step test uses a prescribed step height which is difficult in a telehealth setting. Examine a modification of the YMCA step test allowing for the use of preexisting in-home objects of variable height as the “step” in a virtual environment. Young healthy participants (n = 40) performed step tests with a small and large object of their choosing within their home in a randomized cross-over study. The stepping frequency was modified for each step height using an established metabolic formula to match estimated exercising VO2 of the YMCA step test. Post-exercise self-palpated heart rate from the small (average 101 ± 23 BPM) vs large (103 ± 23 BPM) step tests were correlated (r = 0.865, p < .001) with good reliability (ICC = 0.865) and within-participant coefficient of variation of 6.8%. Modifying step frequency to account for the varying heights of objects used as “steps” results in reliable heart rate responses to the YMCA step test.","PeriodicalId":48577,"journal":{"name":"Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science","volume":"26 1","pages":"155 - 164"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9000,"publicationDate":"2021-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1091367X.2021.1964507","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH","Score":null,"Total":0}
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ABSTRACT The YMCA step test uses a prescribed step height which is difficult in a telehealth setting. Examine a modification of the YMCA step test allowing for the use of preexisting in-home objects of variable height as the “step” in a virtual environment. Young healthy participants (n = 40) performed step tests with a small and large object of their choosing within their home in a randomized cross-over study. The stepping frequency was modified for each step height using an established metabolic formula to match estimated exercising VO2 of the YMCA step test. Post-exercise self-palpated heart rate from the small (average 101 ± 23 BPM) vs large (103 ± 23 BPM) step tests were correlated (r = 0.865, p < .001) with good reliability (ICC = 0.865) and within-participant coefficient of variation of 6.8%. Modifying step frequency to account for the varying heights of objects used as “steps” results in reliable heart rate responses to the YMCA step test.
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The scope of Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science (MPEES) covers original measurement research, special issues, and tutorials within six substantive disciplines of physical education and exercise science. Six of the seven sections of MPEES define the substantive disciplines within the purview of the original research to be published in the journal: Exercise Science, Physical Activity, Physical Education Pedagogy, Psychology, Research Methodology and Statistics, and Sport Management and Administration. The seventh section of MPEES, Tutorial and Teacher’s Toolbox, serves to provide an outlet for review and/or didactic manuscripts to be published in the journal. Special issues provide an avenue for a coherent set of manuscripts (e.g., four to five) to collectively focus in-depth on an important and timely measurement-related issue within the scope of MPEES. The primary aim of MPEES is to publish high-impact manuscripts, most of which will focus on original research, that fit within the scope of the journal.
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