Last Fitness Test

By this time I would be on the track getting my workout in to run the 300 hurdles. I was solid in that event, but the events I took the most pride in was the 400 and the 4 by 4. It had been a rough ending to basketball season but this would be the major turning point for me. I could make it all up by going to state. My track coach knew my coach from middle school so she has heard quite a bit about me. I never really had training or anything I just ran at first. I started to do summer training and ran with a local track team. Coach George wanted me to run the 200. It was new to me so we trained in the mornings before school. She bought in the assistant coach and he had me and few more girls lined up on the track. He wanted us to stand side by side and sprint out and merge into lane one. It was kind of crazy because we were all kind of jumbled up together. The first time as I merged into lane one my legs tripped another girl and she fell so I felt bad. So the third time I tried to make sure I didn't trip anyone up because my legs were so long. I dodge tripping the same girl but I almost hit another. By the fourth time I was really just over it, I jerked my body one way and my hip went the other. I ended up limping to the finish line. I thought it was just a little kink and I could just pop it out. I was completely wrong. It was way worse than the ankle injury. I guess it was a sign from good telling me to

Greater lawrence, pass him, Sprint. So i finish on the floor dying couldn’t breath properly so i deep breaths and needed water my mouth was dry. After the race was over needed time to process like what happen in the beginning i knew we’re going to face greater lowell next week needed to be prepared for the time being. I needed to fix on my start so i don’t have to be the hero. I need to work on is my breathing it didn’t go so well and how to keep a pace with someone so i won’t lose the guy and cost the team some points if i do that well i’m gold. I needed to workout my legs so they won’t hurt during in races. The most important i have to do is keep my body calm and mind during the race next week. I knew in my next race it’s not all about having speed and it was mostly having a good mentality. So i work on a one week later race against greater lowell again i have done better which i did before at least i had the knowledge of the course to back that up it was a great

I ran as fast as I could, I was tired but knew that I had to keep going. The sun shone down ferociously making it very bright and torrid. I felt sweat drip from just above my brow into my right eye. My eye began to get a burning sensation just as I turned the corner. My muscles ached, but I knew I had to shift into overdrive and pick up the pace. I started to run faster and faster. I began to get the feeling like I was about to throw up, but knew that I couldn’t stop now. I continued to sprint to the finish, and just as I crossed the finish line I looked to the clock and noticed that I set a new PR. The feeling of happiness that swelled up inside me took me back to the practice on the tuesday of the previous week: That day it was hot as fire

Spring of my junior year in high school, I joined track with wishful thinking. I’m going to do track, run sprints, and get into great shape for summer. However, with my luck it didn’t work out how I wanted. A week into the track season, I went to our school’s field to play a pick-up game of soccer. In the process of going to the field, I had to climb over a fence. Simple? I really should of thought this through, but didn’t. As I jumped over and landed, a loud pop sound came from my knee loud enough for my friends to hear. I sat there crying in front of my friends for a minute or two, but got up trying to walk it off. As you can see no is not an option for me, as I tried play a soccer game with a swollen knee cap. I was confused what happened, I didn’t know exactly happened. But sharp pains were shooting through my leg as I limped around the field. Little did I know a swollen and bruised knee meant torn ligaments.

It was the beginning of the track season a few days before our first track meet. My friends and I were running around the track and my leg gets tense. Not terribly unusual I've had charley horses before, but then there's a pop and my leg gives. I stop running and my friends help me up and to the athletic trainers. They tell me I have sprained my hamstring. This was heartbreaking for me as this was the year I was going to run with my friends in the sprints and high jump as I was unable to last year due to a similar thing happening but with my feet. I was not going to accept this defeat and choose to show up every day to practice and to the trainers for rehabilitation. At meets, I would work around the track at either the high jump pit or the long jump pit. I would give my teammates words of encouragement as often as I could. I held the

The veteran of the specific field events came to coach the beginners. I decided to join Hurdle to make a good use of my long legs. The coach for Hurdle taught us necessary pre-workout because hurdlers will have a higher chance of straining a leg muscle from jumping over a high hurdle. One of the pre-workouts required us to get in a crawling position and lift the leg like a dog peeing over a fire hydrant. The pre-workouts looked funny because we were focusing on the leg muscles. When I came back home, my whole body was aching from the extreme workouts. That night, I took a long hot shower to relax my muscles not knowing that tomorrow will be worse. The next day of practice, the coach made us jump over the hurdle. I went over to the hurdle to

During my sophomore year of highschool I loved to play volleyball and basketball. It was my life and I enjoyed everything about it. The intensity of the sports gave me a thrill rush. Sports are what helped me through high school. During volleyball season I was a major blocker for our team. I played weak side witch was your top blocker. I was going up for a block and when I came down I landed really wrong. As I was coming down and felt my feet hit the ground I heard a loud pop in my knee. I had instant pain and fell to the ground. As my coaches were running over to me I could feel tears running down my face. I told myself that pain wasn’t going to take my game away from me. I got up and told my coaches leave me in I am fine. I continued to play till the end of the game. I was in so much pain and aginee. I finished the game and went into the locker rooms and finished my high school career.

I managed to make it over the hill without injuring myself or falling down. In the second loop, about 1.6K into the race, I was getting tired and I wanted to start walking. After just finishing the second round, I did not know how many rounds there were to come (no one had ever told me, they just told me to keep running), but my partner encouraged me saying, “Come on! I will push you from behind, and you push me when I’m tired! We are almost there! One more!” We took turns running behind each other, not letting the other slow down. However, I was really tired at the end of the third lap and I started to walk. Then I saw my family at the finish line and the crowd cheering. I thought of all that hard training and knew that stopping now would be crazy and a waste of all that time and effort. I put my head down and started running again so my family would see me and be proud. I ended the race running

Dating back to a cloudy, and gloomy school day in middle school I started to feel very sick. It felt as if someone was doing jumping-jacks inside my stomach, and I had a headache the size of a grapefruit. After school I gear up to go to track practice thinking I would take it easy, however my track coach had a different plan in mind. He announces that we are going to be walking over to Crissy field to run from the beginning to the end of the trail, and back. Being the naive kid I am, I feel as if I could make it there and back, not knowing the run would be almost four and a half miles long ! The

During, 2nd period an insane idea came to my head while we had morning announcements. Mrs. Pingree was advertising a program called TRM. Running was a hobby for many people and I wouldn’t think to make it an activity that I would do. In 7th grade, I remember running in PE every Tuesday despising and abhorring every moment, each and every second. It all happened so quickly. I was just positive that I would quit within the first month at minimum. That same evening I went Ms. Pingree’s classroom to join the program. I was more ecstatic than I should have been. I still have no idea why. It was 26 week commitment. It meant that I needed to come to every practice every week. Practices were on Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and on Saturday mornings. It was miraculous that some people could make it to all of those practices every one of those 26 weeks, I

To gain entry into any public service a standard fitness test must be passed. Each service has different requirements due to the different situations that will arise. Some services may require you to have a better cardiovascular endurance due to stamina being an essential requirement to that service.

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

Immediately after turning 21 years of age in March of 1992 I submitted my application to be a Cobb County Police Officer. Additional background, medical and physical assessments, and interviews were part of the process. Keep in mind, I am not a physically fit person; never have been. At the time, as a smoker, I knew the physical fitness assessment test would be my nemesis. The dreaded day arrived to complete the physical agility assessment test. Whether it was the standard for sit-ups, bench press, or the timed mile and a half run, several applicants seemed to struggle with one aspect or another during the testing. Accordingly, for me, it was definitely the timed mile and a half run. In order to successfully pass the run I had to complete

My first race was extremely nerve wracking and disappointing. I was so anxious before the race that I was almost sick. When I heard the gun go off, I started sprinting. Soon after, I got tired from starting too fast. The problem with that was there was still 1.5 miles left. It was near 100 degrees and I was getting slower by the minute. My legs were so tired they burned. The more I thought, the slower I went. I was so glad to get a glass of water when I crossed the finish line. I felt so bad after my race, but strangely it motivated me.

2. Explain the purpose and benefits of fitness testing drawing on examples from your chosen activity (5 marks):