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Test-retest reliability of strength, power, agility, and sprint performance in female team handball players
Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, Vol.28(3), pp.249-255
2025
PMID: 39645439
Abstract
Objectives
This study assessed the test–retest reliability of athletic performance tests in a cohort of trained Norwegian female handball players, as well as a sub-analysis of the test–retest reliability for naturally menstruating players.
Design
Eighteen handball players (naturally menstruating: n = 8) completed performance test batteries on three separate occasions.
Methods
The performance test battery included: a 1-repetition Smith machine back squat, maximal handgrip strength tests, counter-movement jumps, squat jumps, a modified agility T-test, and 15-m linear sprints. For the naturally menstruating players, the testing sessions were completed at three hormonally-distinct points within a menstrual cycle (i.e., early follicular, ovulation, and mid-luteal phases). Reliability statistics (intraclass correlations, standard error of measurement, minimum difference, and coefficient of variation) were calculated for each performance test.
Results
Good-to-excellent test–retest reliability was found for all performance measures (intraclass correlation2,1 point estimates = 0.82 to 0.94), although max squat jumps were somewhat lower (intraclass correlation2,1 = 0.75 [95 % confidence interval = 0.55, 0.88]). Subgroup analysis for naturally menstruating players also revealed consistently high reliability values for all tests (intraclass correlation2,1 point estimate = 0.83 to 0.74).
Conclusions
These reliability data support the periodic use of selected athletic tests in routine handball assessments, in order to identify changes in sporting performance and monitor player progress. As test reliability does not appear to be influenced by the menstrual cycle phase, coaches and sports practitioners may schedule testing sessions for all athletes, without concern of a confounding effect from menstrual phases.
Details
- Title
- Test-retest reliability of strength, power, agility, and sprint performance in female team handball players
- Authors
- John O Osborne (Corresponding Author) - UiT The Arctic University of NorwayIngrid Kildalsen - UiT The Arctic University of NorwaySigurd Pedersen - UiT The Arctic University of NorwaySvein Arne Pettersen - UiT The Arctic University of NorwayBoye Welde - UiT The Arctic University of NorwayClare L Minahan - Griffith UniversityErik P Andersson - UiT The Arctic University of Norway
- Publication details
- Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, Vol.28(3), pp.249-255
- Publisher
- Elsevier Australia
- Date published
- 2025
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.jsams.2024.11.008
- ISSN
- 1878-1861; 1440-2440
- PMID
- 39645439
- Grant note
- This study was supported by the Tromsø Research Foundation with funding supplied to FENDURA and FFRC research projects.
- Organisation Unit
- School of Health
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 991110045102621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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- Sport Sciences