Maximal Oxygen Consumption Requirements in Professional North American Ice Hockey.

Ferland, P-M, Marcotte-L'Heureux, V, Roy, P, Carey, V, Charron, J, Lagrange, S, Leone, M, and Comtois, AS. Maximal oxygen consumption requirements in professional North American ice hockey. J Strength Cond Res 35(4): 1586-1592, 2021-This study was designed to measure preseason on-ice relative V̇o2max of professional ice-hockey players (n = 101 National Hockey League [NHL], 42 American Hockey League [AHL], 4 East Coast Hockey League [ECHL], and 15 Canadian Hockey League [CHL]) throughout 17 years and compare it between generations, league level, and position, and to verify if it was related to season and NHL career statistics.

Validation of the alpine skiing 90 seconds box jump field test and prediction of power output.

Background: The purpose of this study was to validate the alpine ski racing 90 s box jump field-test (BJ90) with the 90 s Wingate test (W90).

Methods: Fifteen elite alpine ski racers were tested on the BJ90 (0.45 m × 0.