The impact of anthropometric characteristics on isometric trunk muscle endurance tests: A reliability and performance analysis

Casto Juan-Recio, Francisco J Vera-Garcia, Alejandro Lopez-Valenciano and David Barbado

PLOS ONE, 2025, vol. 20, issue 6, 1-17

Abstract: The Biering-Sorensen test (BST), the Side Bridge test (SBT) and the Ito test (IT) are three of the most used field-based tests to assess isometric trunk muscle endurance. The objectives were to analyze the relationship between the participants’ test performance and several anthropometry parameters, the data consistency and the sex effect on test scores. Forty-five recreational athletes (27 males and 18 females) performed the three isometric trunk holding tests twice in two testing sessions to perform the reliability analysis and later, the three tests were performed once more, but in different sessions (one for each test) to maximize test performance and reduce the bias of muscle fatigue. Data (i.e., test scores and anthropometric variables) were logarithmic transformed to ensure the normality and homoscedasticity assumption. Relative reliability was very good, with ICCs > 0.70 in all tests, while absolute reliability showed high values of typical error (12.1–24.1%). ANOVA showed significant differences between sessions for the BST and the SBT scores and between sexes in the BST (females: 193.7 ± 53.2 s; males: 161.9 ± 52.2 s). IT scores showed a negative correlation with mass in both sexes (males: r = −.436; p = .026; females: r = −.562; p = .019) and with biileocrestal breadth (r = −.735; p = .001) and biacromial breadth (r = −.745; p = .001) in females. BST scores correlated significantly with biacromial breadth (r = −.379; p = .050) in males. SBT scores were negatively correlated to mass (r = −.703; p

Date: 2025
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