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