抄録
Recently, the physical fitness tests are prevalent not only among sportsmen but also among general populations. Various measuring devices of reaction time which measure a part of agility as one of the factors of physical fitness are apt to be omitted or substituted by more integrated performance ability tests in spite of their high feasibility and reliability, perhaps due to their high price of apparatus and the complicated manipulations. Aiming at this point, the study was made to examine (1) if the bar-gripping reaction time, which measures the agility of grasping the proposed bar, is appropriate as an instrument for physical fitness tests, further, (2) to obtain the average values of the bar-gripping reaction time for the establishment of the norm regarding age and sex.
