The reliability of vertical jump tests between the Vertec and My Jump phone application.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The vertical jump is used to estimate sports performance capabilities and physical fitness in children, elderly, non-athletic and injured individuals. Different jump techniques and measurement tools are available to assess vertical jump height and peak power; however, their use is limited by access to laboratory settings, excessive cost and/or time constraints thus making these tools oftentimes unsuitable for field assessment. A popular field test uses the Vertec and the Sargent vertical jump with countermovement; however, new low cost, easy to use tools are becoming available, including the My Jump iOS mobile application (app). The purpose of this study was to assess the reliability of the My Jump relative to values obtained by the Vertec for the Sargent s

SUBMITTER: Yingling VR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5912202 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature