“…In recent years, several studies investigated the association between anthropometric characteristics and performance in endurance athletes (Aagaard, Sahlen, & Braunschweig, 2012;Arrese & Ostáriz, 2006;Bale, Bradbury, & Colley, 1986;Hagan, Upton, Duncan, & Gettman, 1987;Hoffman, 2008;Hoffman & Fogard, 2011;Kenney & Hodgson, 1985;Knechtle, Duff, Welzel, & Kohler, 2009a;Knechtle et al, 2011a;Knechtle, Knechtle, Barandun, Rosemann, & Lepers, 2011b). Different anthropometric characteristics showed a significant relationship with endurance performance, although the correlations between them and performance were consistently quite small, ranging from under r = .04 to an upper bound of r = .52, that is, from essential zero to 11% of the variance in performance.…”