Finding Your Fitness Team

What is the stage in which everyone in a fitness group or team may be tense because they are still feeling out their roles?

• forming

• storming

• norming

• performing

Chad is upset that he has been in his fitness group for three months, but he doesn’t feel as though he’s making progress even though he is meeting group goals. Amanda tells Chad that he can suggest ways the group’s goals could be better, but otherwise his participation is his choice. Amanda MOST likely is attempting to remind Chad of which responsibility?

• Work toward shared goals.

• Know why he’s in the group.

• Participate in group activities.

• Don’t dwell on failures.

Who should feel ownership in a fitness group or team?

• the leader

• the best performers

• the most improved performers

• everyone involved

What word describes people working together to perform fitness activities?

• collaboration

• creativity

• criticism

• competition

What do you need to do to achieve the mission in a strategic fitness game?

• Beat your personal best in an activity.

• Make the other players feel included.

• Think of a solution to a problem.

• Run faster than the other players.

Elliott has noticed that several members of his fitness group with strong personalities have begun taking over group discussions to define goals and choose activities. He thinks some quieter members aren’t getting enough input into what the group does. What word BEST describes the area Elliott wants his group to improve?

• direction

• goals

• ownership

• strategies

What is the stage in which everyone in a fitness group or team has accepted their roles and begun to work together?

• forming

• storming

• norming

• performing

What is the BEST strategy for success in a fitness group?

• Focus on failures.

• Avoid making any mistakes.

• Feed yourself healthy messages.

• Review what others do wrong.

Jordan meets with several other people in the park every week. They set a goal every week, and each person performs a different role to support achieving the desired purpose. Everything they do involves fitness, but if they don’t achieve the desired result, they consider their efforts to be a failure. What BEST identifies Jordan and his companions as a team instead of a group?

• They have a shared purpose.

• They meet at a specific time each week.

• Their efforts support one another.

• They are focused on a specific result.

In a partnership fitness activity, what is your relationship to your partner?

• aggressive

• competitive

• cooperative

• secretive