*2.3. Reference Fitness Test Values*

Fitness test batteries have been applied in the school districts of our group of puberal and adolescent horse riders, ensuring that subjects may have come from similar ethnic, cultural, socio-economic, and socio-demographic groups. Physical education schoolteachers provided us with the results of their last collection of fitness values dated 2007. The results for the same 8 test items obtained from 1687 female high school non-athlete students were used. Since these values are age- and sex- matched (age: 11–18 years), they served as reference values to be compared with those of our subjects.
