Fig. 3

Sport climbing improves the speed of the Five Times Sit to Stand test. Box plots for each test point (before the intervention = baseline, and after the intervention = after 12 weeks) show the respective median, minimum, maximum and the first and third quartiles of the speed of the FTST in seconds in 22 Parkinson’s Disease participants (H&Y 2–3) after a 12-week sport climbing intervention (SC) compared to a control group of 24 PD participants (H&Y 2–3) who performed unsupervised physical activity (UT). The SC showed a significant increase in the speed of the FTST (baseline: 15 s, 12 weeks: 13 s, p = 0.014), while the UT did not (baseline: 15 s; 12 weeks: 15 s). H&Y, Hoehn & Yahr stage; FTST; Five Times Sit to Stand test; SC, sport climbing group; UT, unsupervised control group; **p ≤ 0.01. *p ≤ 0.05; n.s., not significant