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Bourban trunk test: the position
Forearms on the floor, head and hands against the wall, body in line. Record the time held.
- What it measures
- Strength
- Effort
- Short or sub-maximal
- Duration
- about 10 min for a group
- Equipment
- a wall and a mat, stopwatch or phone
Set-up
A wall, a mat and a stopwatch.
How to run it
Forearm plank, upper arms vertical, head and hands touching the wall, shoulders, hips and ankles in one line. Lift the feet alternately 2 to 5 cm off the floor, one second each, knees straight. Stop after the third warning when the hips rise or sag, the trunk rotates or the arms move, or at 3 min 30 s. No encouragement and no time calls during the test.
What to record
The time held, in seconds.
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 8 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.
Before: Handgrip strength After: Repeated sprints (6 x 35 m) The field tests guide
Sources
- Deutscher Fechter-Bund x IAT Leipzig, Athletiktest v2 (2023), Kraftausdauer Rumpf (fechten.org Testmanual 2023-04)