Conconi test
Sports medicine test
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The Conconi Test is a sports medicine test[1] intended to measure an individual's maximum anaerobic and aerobic threshold heart rates.
| Conconi test | |
|---|---|
| Purpose | measure aerobic threshold heart rates. |
The test measures a person's heart rate at different loads (e.g. faster speeds on a treadmill). The points are plotted on a graph with heart rate on one axis and power (or some correlated measurement such as running speed) on the other axis; the graph's deflection point indicates the aerobic threshold. The heart rate increases (approximately) linearly up to the deflection point, where the heart rate reaches AT (also known as LT, lactate threshold, in more modern nomenclature). The test continues for a while, under increasing load, until the subject has gone well past the anaerobic threshold.