Trial reportEuropean journal of applied physiology2012
Determination of critical power in trained rowers using a three-minute all-out rowing test.
Trial report in European journal of applied physiology, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 18 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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18 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- The 3-min all-out test in cycling: a systematic review and meta-analysis on its reliability and validity.European journal of applied physiology · 2026Pooled it
- Oxygen uptake kinetics and speed-time correlates of modified 3-minute all-out shuttle running in soccer players.PloS one · 2018Trial
- Caffeine ingestion improves power output decrement during 3-min all-out exercise.European journal of applied physiology · 2016Trial
- Impact of Heat and Humidity on Critical Power and Physiological Responses during the Three-Minute All-Out Test in Cyclists.Journal of human kinetics · 2026Article
- The Evaluation of Physical Performance in Rowing Ergometer: A Systematic Review.Journal of functional morphology and kinesiology · 2025Review
- Influence of local and remote ischemic preconditioning on 3-min all-out exercise performance: A randomized controlled crossover study.Journal of exercise science and fitness · 2025Article
- Changes in the ideal body shape associated with adolescent rowing-ergometry performance following a 6-week training intervention: New scaling insights using three-dimensional allometry.European journal of sport science · 2024Article
- Six-minute rowing test: a valid and reliable method for assessing power output in amateur male rowers.PeerJ · 2022Article
- Comparison of parameters derived from a three-minute all-out test with classical benchmarks for running exercise.PloS one · 2022Article
- Determining Validity of Critical Power Estimated Using a Three-Minute All-Out Test in Hot Environments.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Predicting Maximal Oxygen Uptake Using the 3-Minute All-Out Test in High-Intensity Functional Training Athletes.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- Associations between Multimodal Fitness Assessments and Rowing Ergometer Performance in Collegiate Female Athletes.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- The 3-min all-out test is valid for determining critical power but not anaerobic work capacity in tethered running.PloS one · 2018Article
- Experimental Protocol of a Three-minute, All-out Arm Crank Exercise Test in Spinal-cord Injured and Able-bodied Individuals.Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE · 2017Article
- Skeletal muscle bioenergetics during all-out exercise: mechanistic insight into the oxygen uptake slow component and neuromuscular fatigue.Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985) · 2017Article
- The 'Critical Power' Concept: Applications to Sports Performance with a Focus on Intermittent High-Intensity Exercise.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2017Review
- Influence of blood flow occlusion on the development of peripheral and central fatigue during small muscle mass handgrip exercise.The Journal of physiology · 2015Article
- A 'ramp-sprint' protocol to characterise indices of aerobic function and exercise intensity domains in a single laboratory test.European journal of applied physiology · 2014Article
Corrections and comments
- Erratum issued
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5 authors.
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Abstract
The purpose of this study was to determine whether the hyperbolic relationship between power output and time to exhaustion (work - time and power - [1/time] models) could be estimated from a modified version of a three-minute all-out rowing test (3-min RT), and to investigate the test-retest reliability of the 3-min RT. Eighteen male rowers volunteered to participate in this study and underwent an incremental exercise test (IRT), three constant-work rate tests to establish the critical power (CP) and the curvature constant (W'), and two 3-min RTs against a fixed resistance to estimate the end-test power (EP) and work-done-above-EP (WEP) on a rowing ergometer. Peak VO(2max) and maximal VO(2max) oxygen uptakes were calculated as the highest 30 s average achieved during the 3-min RT and IRT tests. The results showed that EP and WEP determinations, based on the 3-min RT, have moderate reproducibility (P = 0.002). EP (269 ± 39 W) was significantly correlated with CP (work - time, 272 ± 30 W; power - [1/time], 276 ± 32 W) (P = 0.000), with no significant differences observed between the EP and CP values (P = 0.474). However, WEP did not significantly correlate with W' (P = 0.254), and was significantly higher than the W' values. There was a significant correlation between the VO(2max) (60 ± 3 ml kg(-1) min(-1)) and VO(2max) (61 ± 4 ml kg(-1) min(-1)) (P = 0.003). These results indicate that the 3-min RT has moderate reliability, and is able to appropriately estimate the aerobic capacity in rowers, particularly for the CP and VO(2max) parameters.
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