Stepping From Belgium to the United States and Back: The Conceptualization and Impact of the Harvard Step Test, 1942–2012

Vangrunderbeek, Hans; Delheye, Pascal

doi:10.1080/02701367.2013.784724

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“…One of the first widely used step tests, which became known as the Harvard Step Test, was developed at the Harvard Fatigue Laboratory [4]. With the widespread use of the Harvard Step Test, step testing became a standard method to assess cardiorespiratory fitness in the field setting [5]. The ease of administration, minimal equipment required, marginal space needed, limited client motivation and skill required, and capability to test multiple people at once make step tests a popular mode to evaluate aerobic capacity [6,7].…”

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A Generalized Equation for Prediction of VO2peak from a Step Test

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This study aimed to develop an equation to reduce variability of VO2peak prediction from a step test and compare VO2peak prediction from the new equation to the Queen’s College Step Test (QCST). The development group (n=86; 21.7±2 years) was utilized to develop the SDState step test equation to predict relative VO2peak. The cross-validation group (n=99; 21.6±2 years) was used to determine the validity of the SDState step test VO2peak prediction equation. A regression analysis was used to identify the best model to predict VO2peak. Analysis of variance (ANOVA) was further used to determine differences among predicted and measured VO2peak values. Forward stepwise multiple regression identified age, sex, abdominal circumference, and active heart rate at the 3-min mark of the step test to be significant predictors of VO2peak (mL·kg−1·min−1). No differences among measured VO2peak (47.3±7.1 mL·kg−1·min−1) and predicted VO2peak (QCST, 46.9±9.3 mL·kg−1·min−1; SDState 48.3±5.7 mL·kg−1·min−1) were found. Pearson correlations, ICC, SEE, TEE, Bland-Altman plots, and Mountain plots indicate the SDState step test equation provides less variation in the prediction of VO2peak compared to the QCST. The SDState step test equation is effective for predicting VO2peak from the YMCA step test in young, healthy adults.

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“…The heart beats were counted using stopwatch and the total number of heart beats were calculated using the formula te × 100/hb × 2, where te represents the time of exhaustion; hb represents total number of heart beats. [26] HRV…”

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Comparative Study of Physiological Indicators of Cardiovascular Fitness such as Heart Rate Variability, Harvard Step Test, Ankle-brachial Index, and Body mass Index in Rural and Urban Adolescent Girls

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Katravath

Fatima

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Objectives: Health is defined as a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being. Materials and Methods: Humans have settled in both urban and rural areas, which might have influenced people and their physiology in different ways. Results: Cardiovascular fitness as a marker of proper functioning of the whole body is associated with many health-related outcomes, with poor fitness leading to development of cardiovascular diseases (CVD). Conclusion: This study aimed to perform a comparative study of the physiological parameters’ indicative of cardiovascular fitness in urban and rural adolescent girls.

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“…prominent place in Belgian biometrics, which itself would become central at the physical education institutes, which were established in Liège (1931), Leuven (1937/1942) and Brussels (1945cf. De Bont, 2003;Renson, 1991;Vangrunderbeek, Claessens, & Delheye, 2013;Vangrunderbeek & Delheye, 2013a). The so-called respiratory gymnastics had already captured the interest of doctors even before Clément Lefébure had entered the public arena.…”

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Statistics, gymnastics and the origins of sport science in Belgium (and Europe)

Delheye

2014

European Journal of Sport Science

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This paper analyses the introduction of statistics in the field of gymnastics and its effect on the institutionalisation of physical education as a fully fledged academic discipline. Soon after Belgian independence, Adolphe Quetelet's research already resulted in large-scale anthropometric statistics - indeed, he developed an index that is still being used and is better known under the name of the body mass index. His insights were applied by promoters of gymnastics who wanted to make physical education more scientific. Thus, Clément Lefébure, director of the Ecole Normale de Gymnastique et d'Escrime in Brussels, set up a comparative experiment (with pre- and post-test measurements) by which he intended to show that the 'rational' method of Swedish gymnastics produced much better results than the 'empirical' method of Belgian/German Turnen. Lefébure's experiment, which was cited internationally but which was also strongly contested by opponents, was one of the factors that led to Swedish gymnastics being officially institutionalised in 1908 at the newly founded Higher Institute of Physical Education of the State University of Ghent, the first institute in the world where students could obtain a doctoral degree in physical education. Although it rested actually on very weak scientific foundations, the bastion of Swedish gymnastics built in Belgium in that pre-war period collapsed only in the 1960s. From then on, sport science could develop fully within the institutes for physical education.

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Stepping From Belgium to the United States and Back: The Conceptualization and Impact of the Harvard Step Test, 1942–2012

Cited by 6 publications

References 34 publications

A Generalized Equation for Prediction of VO2peak from a Step Test

A Generalized Equation for Prediction of VO2peak from a Step Test

Comparative Study of Physiological Indicators of Cardiovascular Fitness such as Heart Rate Variability, Harvard Step Test, Ankle-brachial Index, and Body mass Index in Rural and Urban Adolescent Girls

Statistics, gymnastics and the origins of sport science in Belgium (and Europe)

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