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Khandro | 09:11 Wed 09th Jan 2013 | Body & Soul
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My German doctor asked me yesterday what was the name English name for the test where you sit on a bicycle apparatus and pedal against an increasingly hard resistance until you are - to use a non-medical term- 'knackered' and then measurements are taken of your heart and lungs etc.
I suggested it might be a stress-test, but I don't think that is correct, can anyone oblige please?
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Can't think of a better alternative than your's Khandro.
sorry.....should have read "TO yours".....not "than your's."
Stamina Test?
It's a cardiac stress test. You're hooked up to an ECG while doing the physical exercise, either on a bike or treadmill
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/VO2_max

This is the other one i was thinking about.
Rather boringly, I have always known them as cardiac and pulmonary function evaluation exercise tests :)





check out Chester Step Test Khandro,
it's an ECG test in the UK used by
the emergency services to test fitness levels,
OR...Exercise Tolerance Test.
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Thanks to all, plenty to go on. I don't think I will tell him L.G.'s though :-)
I know, mine was rather a boring answer. Still, to convey the essence of the test, I do not think "Stress test" really fits the bill, since it does not specify what is being stressed :)

Cardio-Pulmonary Stress Testing perhaps? At least that has the advantage of being accurate :)
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L.G. No offence meant, I just shudder at having to re-translate it back into German if asked :-)
None taken Khandro. I share your apprehension - German words can sometimes go on for miles! :)
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^ You mean like a 'captain with the Danube Steam-ship Company'; Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaftskapitän. ?
exactly like that, Khandro, although german speakers might argue differently :)

I seem to remember the german for "matchbox" seemed to go on for about a kilometre - have I got that right, or is memory playing tricks now?
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Though going out of fashion, they are still called 'Streichholzschacterle'.

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