Fitness Assessment - Introduction

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Questions:
- Can you name any fitness tests?
- Who uses fitness testing?   
- What is fitness testing good for?  

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Click the links 'AFL Draft Testing' and 'Cricket Australia- Fitness Testing' and watch the videos to gain insight on how professional sporting associations use fitness testing at an elite level.   Take not of how and why the tests are used...      

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Watch this video to see how fitness testing is used to select applicants into the NZ fire fighting service.  

  • How are these fitness tests used to help select appliocants?  
  • What do these tests try and highlight/emulate?
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Click the link below and learn how to conduct fitness testing accurately and learn the proper procedures needed to obtain the best results.  
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Questions:  
After completing all your fitness tests at TC identify areas you performed well in and areas for improvement according to the fitness norms for your age and gender.  Consider the following:
-  What limitations may there be in the fitness norms?
-  Which fitness components do each of the fitness tests assess?
-  How might you improve your results for next time?

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Research:
Choose a sport and identify 5 physical skills that are required for that sport.  Determine which fitness component is needed and a fitness test that could be used to measure it.  Eg. Rebounding is a Basketball skill which requires muscular power to explode up from the ground.  A fitness test that can be used to measure muscular power is the 'vertical leap test'.

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SKILL

FITNESS COMPONENT

FITNESS TEST

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- Fitness Testing Results
- Direct Observation
- Student Participation
- Ability to assess individual fitness and identfiy strategies to improve

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You should be able to identify and explain a range of fitness areas, known as fitness components that are specific to certain sports.  You should also know what can be measured through fitness testing.  Click the link below to help you...  
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Click the link 'Fitness Testing' and determine what component of fitness is being tested and the name of the tests.  
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Part 1 - Introduction
Use the 'Fitness Components' link below to help answer the following:  

- Explain what fitness testing is used for in sport and at school?
- Identify the fitness components specific to and that can be measured through fitness testing.
- Explain how the fitness norms are used in the link 'Fitness Testing Norms' and how they may be used as a comparison to performance

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Part 2 - Skill Development:
Use the video links to know how to set up and conduct certain fitness tests.
Fitness Tests
- '20m Shuttle Run'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lroAhVO83iI
- 'Illinois Agility Run'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6emyuz76Uk
- '50m Sprint Test'
Run 50m as quickly as possible whilst being timed
- Grip Strength Test
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbdZ12YO1-A
- Basketball Seated Throw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5TVMOBgpJ4
- Stork Stand
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2f76T4-_s8
- Standing Long Jump
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1lbu-piB9o
- Push Up Test
Maximum number of push ups in a minute
- Sit Up Test
Maximum number of sit up in a minute

Part 3 - Conclusion
- What test did you find difficult?
- Who was surprised with their results?  Could have done better?
- How should you prepare yourself for fitness testing?

(If you are willing, you could perhaps use your testing data as a year level or whole school bench mark...)