Accuracy, reliability and segmental error relationship during a Wingate all-out test

While importance is placed in familiarisation to predict individual data in aerobic power and capacity measurements, this is usually ignored in anaerobic performance analyses, i.e., the Wingate all-out test. Indeed, lack of familiarisation, prior to the Wingate test, may cause invalid test results. The aim of this study was therefore to analyse the curve specificity of time-based power data obtained from fully familiarised athletes to the Wingate test, and show whether the Wingate indices might be adversely affected, if athletes have a lack of familiarisation. The control group consisted of 45 male athletes who did not perform a familiarisation session, while the experiment group consisted of 20 male athletes who performed special familiarisation sessions. Curve specificities were analysed to obtain the best fitted time intervals for the time series of moving averages according to the criterion of continuous power output decrease to the end of the test following peak power production (P