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Year 12 (Single) - Unit 7: Fitness Testing for Sport & Exercise

On your blog, your first post should be entitled 'Fitness Testing for Sport & Exercise: Task 1 - The Fitness Tests'.

 

Find an appropriate fitness test for the following components of fitness

• Speed


• Cardio-vascular Endurance


• Agility


• Power


• Reaction Time


• Muscular Endurance


• Muscular Strength

Include; test protocol, equipment, diagrams (or even videos), normative data for results.

 

To achieve a merit level include a section on your for each test where you explain the advantages and disadvantages and validity/reliability of each test.

 

TIP: Do not confuse Validity/Reliability with advantages/disadvantages. Cost and equipment can be used for advantages/disadvantages. Accuracy (or inaccuracy) of results should be used for Validity/Reliability. Think through the logistics of the test and ask yourself whether the results can be totally accurate and whether the data you have gathered is totally relevant.

 

DEADLINE: To be completed by the start of our lesson on Monday 23rd September

 

Year 12 (Double) - Unit 15: Instructing Physical Activity

Background Information:

You are a fitness instructor at The John Warner Sports Centre. You have 2 very different new clients who would like to improve their levels of fitness and would like to learn about some of the theory regarding Fitness Training. The first client is a fit 25 year old man who has 6 months to prepare for his first attempt at a marathon.  The second is a morbidly obese 40 year old woman who has been advised to improve her general health.

 

Task 1: Using blogger, describe the following principles of training:

• Progression


• Reversibility


• Specificity


• Overload


• F.I.T.T.


• Individual Needs

TIP: Imagine you are giving this information to your two clients:

• Define the principle
• Explain how it might be applied to their individual training plan
• What would happen if the principle was not applied

Describe and apply them to a training session/programme to fully explain. You should also

describe how the body can respond to regular exercise. Include:

• Hypertrophy


• Muscle Tone


• Stroke Volume


• Resting Heart Rate

Year 13 (Single) - Unit 13: Leadership in Sport

Task 1: Using ThingLink you need to create 3 posters which illustrate the qualities, characteristics and roles shared by successful sports leaders. You should use famous sports leaders in your posters.

Accompanying your posters, you should have a body of text which describes, explains and analyses the different factors. You must include case studies and examples to achieve merit/distinction level.

 

TIP: Your posters do not need a great deal of detail. The body of text underneath each poster should explain the quality, role or characteristic. You should try to use the person in your poster as an example when defining.