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What is the easiest fastest way to measure cardiovascular fitness?
Jogging until you have to walk
What is cardiovascular fitness?
Is the ability of blood lungs and blood vessels to pump blood into various systems of the body cardiovascular fitness is also known
as aerobic fitness
What is the most accurate fitness tests to measure persons cardiovascular fitness
The pacer Run
What is flexibility?
The ability to move joints through a full range of motion
What is the easiest fastest way to measure a person’s hip/low back flexibility?
The V sits and reach test. The benchmarks for this test our boys 1 inch and girls 4.5 inches
What is body composition?
The individuals body composition is made up of bone muscles body organs and body fat
What is the easiest fastest way to assess body composition
The BMI test body mass index
What is the most accurate way to assess body composition?
This is the hydrostatic Weighing
What is a healthy range of body fat for a high school student
Between 18% and 25% body fat
What is muscular strength
A measure of amount of external force that a muscle group or muscles can excert
What is the easiest fastest way to assess one’s upper body strength
To benchpress at least 75% of the bodyweight on a weighted machine
What is the most accurate way to assess muscular strength?
To see how much a person could lift at one time
What is muscular endurance
The ability to move your muscles at many times without getting tired or fatigued
What is the easiest fastest way to assess muscular endurance
To see how many sit ups somebody could do the benchmarks are boys 45 and 40 for girls
What’s most accurate way to assess muscular endurance
To see how many push-ups somebody could do the benchmarks boys 24 and 11 for girls
