Purpose :- Testing upper body strength Equipment : 5 lb Weight & an 8 lb weight, stopwatch & a straight-back chair with no arms. Women will curl a 5 lb. weight in this test and men will curl an 8 lb. weight for their test. It is extremely important to the accuracy of the test that you use the appropriate weight for men & women in this test.
Procedure :
* Test assistant will tell to begin and will time for 30 seconds, using the stopwatch or a watch with a second hand.
* Do as many curls as can in the allotted 30-second time period, moving in a controlled manner.
* Do a full curl, squeezing lower arm against upper arm at the top of each curl and returning to a straight arm each time. Keep upper arm still.
* Do not swing the Weight.
* If started raising the weight again and are over halfway up when time is over, count that curl!
Scoring : The score is the total number of controlled arm curls performed in 30 seconds.
