LO Fitness Testing Task

* The bending of the knees and the use of the leg muscle groups to perform the skill.

To test the athletes' strength, they will be required to perform 1 repetition max on the bench press, squat, dead lift, clean and vertical leap. To test the athletes speed they will be tested by performing a forty-yard dash. To test the athlete's agility, they will be required to perform out the t-test, hexagon test and pro agility, for time. To test endurance, the athlete will be required to perform a mile run for time. At the end of the third cycle of the off-season, the athlete will be tested again to perceive how much strength gain, increase speed, agility and endurance was achieved and it will determine the changes should be made for

For this statistical test we can use the single sample research t-test, predicting that the runner pulse will be slower than the other athlete pulses.

During the session we worked in pairs and watched our partner to run to the half way line and we assessed their technique. We then looked more in depth at their foot placement, arm movement and their overall posture.

The sit and reach test, which is used to measure the degree of flexibility of the lumbar and hamstring.( Jackson. A & Jane Jackson. N. (1989), good hamstring flexibility is important for football players in the ball kicking skill. Hamstring injuries are common in football thus trying the reduce hamstring injuries in football is essential (Woods. C.(2004)). Therefore the sit and reach test will help give a indication how susceptible one is to hamstring injuries. This will help coaches devise training plans for specific weaknesses.

This statement concerns the letter of counseling I received on 06 October 2016 regarding my omission of not attending a scheduled mandatory Fitness Assessment on 27 September 2016.

I find that My Fitness Pal tends to overestimate the calories burned during exercise … I don’t recommend eating all the calories the app claims you have burnt.

In regards to my second fitness goal, which was to raise my overall level of strength, I believe that my progress has been going well and that I may be close to achieving my goal very soon. I plan on performing many more exercises to do so, and so far it has been working well since I had noticed that my strength is slowly increasing over time. Perhaps I may need to change a few exercises in my exercise routine so that I can achieve this goal much

A vertical jump test is used, both by athletes and the general public, to determine a variety of functional actions. For example, it is commonly used to determine the development of elastic leg strength (Mackenzie, B., 2007), jumping ability and it may even be used to asses recovery prior to or post-training (Baggett, K., 2004). In this investigation, the vertical jump test is being used to determine whether there is any correlation between leg length and vertical jump height. The vertical jump, sometimes known as the Sargent jump test, can either be performed from standing as is in this investigation, or as a running vertical jump test which allows a run up prior to the jump.

After doing some self assessments I would say my current fitness level is at good fitness. I would say this because about two months ago I passed all of the self assessments I took part in except for the body fat percentage one. By the end of the school year I hope to have and I hope to be more on the high performance side of fitness. I also hope to have joined several other sports and to go to the gym more often. Recently I fractured my clavicle so that has restricted what I could do as far as physical activity goes. When I fractured my clavicle I was in the middle of football season and was maintaining a level of good fitness since I was working out six days out of the week. Now that I have not been able to do any vigorous activity for over

A competent squat pattern requires degrees of stability and mobility from the joints of the lower body (foot, ankle, knee, and hip) and the upper body (thoracic and lumbar spine). Strength and Conditioning professionals have knowledge regarding each joints anatomical function and its contribution to optimal movement. The factors that affect an athlete’s ability to perform the test with symmetry and co-ordination is multi-factorial (lack of co-ordination, balance issues, restricted ROM, anthropometrics and previous injury)(Adrian, 1995; Cook, 2003).

I feel like I have improved a lot in my second fitness test, compared to the first test. For my twelve minute run, I have gone way higher; before my result was 414and now it is 4.4625. This happened because I have been jogging a lot more, increasing my endurance. I improved in my sit ups, achieving my goal of 40 sit ups that I made after the last test. My work on doing sit ups before bed has helped out, giving me the result I have today. For push ups, I got one more push up than last time. This happened since although I did sit ups before bed, I never got around to doing push ups as well because either I was sore after my sit ups or something else popped up. I am really pleased with my standing broad jump result because it has increased by

On top of having to wake up on a Monday morning, the gym students of Wilson Southern Middle school hear “Alright guys it's time for the mile,” from their gym teachers. Kvetching and groaning is the wonderful reaction the teachers get when they enter the gym. Every semester Wilson Southern’s gym class is required to complete the mile as part of their fitness testing. 80% of the students surveyed at Wilson Sothern don’t enjoy doing the mile. They say the reason for this is because “it’s too much work”.After talking to the gym teachers, they explained that the traditional middle school girl student’s weight should be around ninety- five pounds to 115 pound for girls and for boys eighty-eight pounds to 110 pounds. That is not the case here. The teachers have been very worried about the student’s health as well as the state law requirements. Therefore, every student is required to complete a mile as a part of their fitness testing. This mile run was not made to torture the students but to prevent them from any health issues that could present them in the future.

It doesn’t take time to perform all the individual needs to be is sit down legs touching the front of the box and stretch as far as possible without bending the legs to see how far the individual can reach. The test requires an assistant to make sure that the individual is performing the workout properly to reduce any risk of getting injured and also to read the results. The disadvantages of doing the sit and reach test is that it is related to muscle pain due to the tightness in the lower back and hamstrings it can help to determine a person’s risks of injury and future pain (32). There are variations in length of arms and legs so comparisons between individuals can be misleading and not accurate, it also doesn’t measure flexibility in other parts of the body except for the lower back and the hamstrings. The test can’t be done in all environments because equipment is needed to perform the

Timed up and go test: The protocol was followed using an established method4. Each participant had one practice run, then one attempt. This was measured in seconds.