• Distinguish between the concepts of health-related fitness and performance-related (skill-related) fitness.

  • What is health-related fitness?

  • What is performance related fitness?

  • Can they ever overlap or switch positions?

• Outline the following major components of fitness

  • Health-related

    • body composition

    • cardio-respiratory (aerobic capacity)

    • flexibility

    • muscular endurance

    • strength

  • Performance-related (skill related)

    • agility

    • balance

    • coordination

    • power

    • reaction time

    • speed

  • What components may switch from skill related to health related in eldery or hypokinetic people

• Outline and evaluate a variety of fitness tests

  • Summarize the protocol for each of the following tests

  • Is each Reliable? Valid? What are the limitations of each?

    • Aerobic capacity—multistage fitness test/ bleeptest (LegerTest), Cooper’s 12 Minute Run, Harvard StepTest

    • Flexibility—sit and reach

    • Muscle endurance—maximum sit-ups, maximum push-ups, flexed arm hang

    • Agility—Illinois Agility Test

    • Strength—hand grip dynamometer

    • Speed—40 meter sprint

    • Body composition—body mass index, anthropometry and underwater weighing

    • Balance—stork stand

    • Coordination—hand ball toss

    • Reaction time—droptest, computer simulation

    • Power—vertical jump, standing broad jump

You will make a poster on Health vs Skill related Fitness

You will be assigned a Fitness test that you will complete with your classmates

Distinguish between health-related fitness and performance-related (skill-related) fitness.

Evaluate two fitness tests used to assess body composition.

Evaluate the Harvard Step Test

List three tests of aerobic capacity.

Evaluate one of the tests for aerobic capacity.

Evaluate one method of testing maximal oxygen uptake for sports players.

Evaluate one fitness test that would be appropriate for measuring leg power.

Outline the protocol used in the multistage fitness test.

Evaluate two methods of body composition testing.

Discuss how a field test of aerobic fitness, e.g. the 12 min cooper run or MSFT, should be validated.

Distinguish specific fitness tests that would be valid for a long-distance runner and a basketball player.

Distinguish between health-related and performance-related fitness. Apply two health-related components of fitness to a marathon runner.

Evaluate the multistage fitness test as a method of assessing aerobic capacity in a long-distance runner.