Contents
Sit-and-reach: the position
Seated, legs straight, soles flat against the box. Record the best reach on the scale.
- What it measures
- Mobility
- Effort
- Short or sub-maximal
- Duration
- about 10 min for a group
- Equipment
- sit-and-reach box
Set-up
A sit-and-reach box (or a step with a ruler). Shoes off.
How to run it
Sit with legs straight and the soles flat against the box. Hands one on top of the other, reach forward slowly as far as possible along the scale, without bouncing, and hold briefly. Two attempts.
What to record
The best reach in cm on the box scale. Note which box you use: scales differ.
By age
- Under 10 Playful challenge
- 10 to 12 Offered
- 13 to 15 Offered
- 16 and over Offered
Everywhere: no ranking of children, no public results, no selection from results. Under 16: parental consent and the child's own agreement. A health check before any maximal test, and stop if you feel unwell.
Reading the result
- Compare the athlete with themselves: same protocol, same surface, same measuring method. Paak publishes no age norms.
- No published retest figure: a small change may simply be day-to-day variation.
On the test day
On the test day this test comes in position 1 of 13: short tests first, maximal efforts last, after about 5 minutes of rest (athletic test manual of the Deutscher Fechter-Bund and IAT Leipzig, 2023).
Dashed border: maximal effort. Gold: this test.
After: Standing long jump The field tests guide
Sources
- Eurofit handbook (Council of Europe, 1983 table)
- Mayorga-Vega 2014 validity meta-analysis