Validation of the Basketball Throw Test as Health-Related Measure for Assessing the Upper-Body Muscular Strength of Algerian Primary School Children

The aim of our study is to investigate the validity of the Basketball Throw test as health-related Measure for assessing the Upper-Body muscular strength of primary school children, for this purpose, we used the cross-sectional method On a sample composed of 65 primary school children (33 boys, 32 girls), mean age 8,75 years, SD = 1,47 years Chosen randomly, and for data collection, we used a flexible type measure and analog scale (to measure height and weight respectively) for the nthropometrics, the Basketball Throw test and Hand-grip test (criterion test) to measure the upper-body muscular strength. After collecting the data and having treated them statistically, we conclude that the Basketball Throw test is a valid measure of primary school children’s upper-body strength/power and is slightly influenced by BMI. On this basis, the study recommended to include this test on the field-based health-related fitness test batteries.