Subjects were given advance verbal instructions and encouragement to push as hard as possible, to facilitate maximal effort during testing.
The first limitation was the ability and willingness of the participants to perform a maximal effort during all testing and training sessions.
Participants were encouraged to reach their maximal effort, and the test was terminated when they requested to stop because of exhaustion or the physician stopped the test for medical reasons.
8 34 Participants were encouraged to give maximal effort, and the test was stopped when participants reached volitional exhaustion or the doctor intervened for medical reasons.
Compared with the established maximal criteria for typically developing children, 28 all but one of the participants met the criteria for a maximal effort during the exercise test, with no significant difference between the HMI and NMI groups.
Tests were maximal effort trials with the duration of the isometric test greater than 2 s to allow participants sufficient opportunity to achieve a true maximal force [9, 24].
The sEMG signals were visually assessed prior to MVC testing using maximal effort MMT to ensure accurate electrode placement.
No one knows how many children failed to give maximal effort on the group achievement tests.
Once participants have reached their maximal effort and withdrawn from the test, the number of shuttles will be recorded.
In particular, maximal exercise tests require the subject to make maximal efforts, rendering such tests highly dependent on motivation.
