WorksheetsVCE PE Fitness testing
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 12mins
What are reasons why coaches/athletes use pre-fitness assessment?
Establish a baseline for future comparisons.
Highlight existing strengths and weaknesses
Use as the basis for the design of training programs.
Highlight the fact that an athlete is really good so they don't need to train.
Reasons why coaches/athletes perform post-testing of fitness:
Monitor progress
Quantify individual improvements.
Evaluate the success of training program and to provide possible modifications to training.
To identify fitness components that are important to the sport.
What considerations should a coach take into account when deciding what fitness testing to do?
How expensive the tests are.
What equipment and facilities are required?
Safety concerns to do with physical environment, climate and temperature.
How the time spent on fitness testing could get in the way of training.
What other considerations should a coach think about in regards to fitness assessment?
Maximal or sub-maximal testing?
What website to use to advertise the results of each of the athletes' fitness assessment.
How testing to impact on athletes' self-esteem and future participation.
Is the group of the one gender or mixed setting?
What factors are involved for pre participation health screenings before fitness assessment?
Will the athlete be able to carry out these tests without risking their health?
Older athletes should get a medical clearance before doing fitness assessment.
Athletes could use a pre participation health screening questionnaire such as PAR-Q or APSS.
She'll be right.
Informed consent in relation to fitness assessment involves:
Athletes knowing what fitness testing will be carried out including the purpose, nature, risks, ability to withdrawer, confidentiality, liability and be given the opportunity to ask questions.
People under the age of 18 having to have parent's/guardian's permission
Isn't important and should be ignored
Protocols related to fitness assessment include:
Specificity (be specific to the athlete's sport/position)
Validity (will measure the fitness components you are trying to assess).
Objectivity (free from bias)
Accuracy (experimental error is reduced)
Reliability (tests to be conducted in same conditions for both the pre- and post-tests).
Fitness tests used for Aerobic Power include:
VO2 max
Yo-yo Test
20m shuttle run test
Seated basketball throw.
Fitness tests used to assess body composition:
BMI
Skin folds
Height and arm span
Walking a balance beam
Fitness tests used to assess Anaerobic Capacity:
Phosphate recovery
Sprints 30m/ 40m/ 50m
Running Based Anaerobic Sprint Test (RAST)
Ruler drop.
Fitness tests used to assess Muscular Strength.
Grip strength (hand dynamometer)
Max. Bench Press (1 RM)
Max. Leg Press (1 RM)
Abdominal Strength
Fitness tests used to assess Muscular Endurance:
Sit ups (30 sec/1 min/ 2min)
Push-ups (30swec/ 1 min/ max.)
Bench jumps (30 sec)
Throw and catch.
Fitness tests used to assess Flexibility:
Sit and reach (modified)
Shoulder and wrist elevation
Trunk and neck extension
Stork stand
Fitness tests used to assess Muscular Power:
Vertical jump and Standing Broad jump
Margaria stair climb
Seated basketball throw
5km swim
Fitness tests used to assess Speed:
Sprint 30m
Sprint 40m
Sprint 50m
Beep test
Fitness tests used to assess Agility:
Illinois agility test
Semo Agility test
VicFit Agility test
5-0-5 Agility Run
Fitness tests used to assess Reaction Time:
Ruler Drop Reaction Test
Reaction Sticks
SVT Reaction Time Test (AFL)
1 RM bench press
Fitness tests used to assess Coordination:
Alternate Hand Wall Toss
Soft Drink Can Test
Milk bottle fling
Fitness tests used to assess Balance:
Stork Stand Balance Test
Standing Balance Test
Balance Beam Walk Test
Push-up test
Roger is a butcher. One day a woman came into his shop and spied a box of meat on the top shelf of the cool-room. Sizing up Roger and the vertical leap he would have to make she bet Roger $1000 that he wouldn't be able to jump up and grab the box. Roger thought about the bet and he?
Had a go and missed.
Had a go and slipped and hurt himself.
Didn't take it because the stakes/steaks were too high.
Wondered how the woman had seen the box when there were no windows to the cool-room.
