Athlete Assessment In Sport & Applied Exercise Physiology - Lecture 15

Question 1

What does Health Related Fitness mean?

Answer 1

Functions and activities of daily living

Question 2

What contributes to Performance Related Fitness

Answer 2

Sport, Occupational and very specific to task and sport.

Question 3

What are characteristics of a good assessment of fitness?

Answer 3

• Valid
• Reliable (Inter & Intra)
• Sport Specific
• Practical
• Repeated Regularly
• Interpreted properly

Question 4

Practical, Completed in Controlled Setting, repeated as regular pre-determined intervals, interpreted properly

Answer 4

More Good Characteristics of a Fitness Assessment

Question 5

Roles of a Fitness Appraisal Specialist

Answer 5

1) We are not the coach who gets to make decisions about who plays or who doesn’t
2) Convince the coach and the players of the value of fitness assessment

Question 6

Why assess physical fitness?

Answer 6

1) Work Rate
2) Concentration
3) Technical Performance
4) Tactical Judgement
5) Susceptible to Injury

Question 7

How can fitness assessment results be used effectively?

Answer 7

1) Establish norms to aid in athlete selection
2) Provide baseline data
3) Monitor effectiveness of a training program
4) Motivate athlete for training and competition

Question 8

How do we find fitness components of a sport and develop a strategy to evaluate them? (Role of a Fitness Appraisal Specialist)

Answer 8

Utilize/Integrate the knowledge of the coach
Scientific analysis

Question 9

Tools to determine how hard a sport may be?

Answer 9

Technology

Question 10

Examples of what wearable tech in Exercise Science is used for?

Answer 10

Accelerometers/pedometers
HR Monitors
Respiration
Sleep
GPS
eTextiles

Question 11

What does a Physiological Assessment tell us?

Answer 11

Team Training/match data
Physiological Data Tracking
pre-post injury states
Training program efficacy

Question 12

What does Lab Test mean?

Answer 12

Assessments done in a lab; in a controlled setting.

Question 13

What does a Field Test mean?

Answer 13

Done outside of a lab preferably during the sport one plays. Less controlled environment.

Question 14

Benefits of a Field Test

Answer 14

Able to measure more people in a bigger setting.
More accessible cost wise

Question 15

Direct vs. Indirect

Answer 15

Direct is actually measuring something (VO2Max measured with breathing apparatus).
Indirect is an estimate (i.e. gives us an aerobic fitness value without measuring oxygen consumption value)

Question 16

Direct Tests

Answer 16

Less accessible, higher cost, but gives us a good measure of an athlete’s performance

Question 17

How can Virtual Reality be used in the sports setting?

Answer 17

Creates this immersive performance environment that has a lot of positives

Question 18

Advantages of VR?

Answer 18

Focus is on mental preparation
Visualization
Repetition
No Physical Demands
No Injury Risk

Question 19

4) Construct appropriate battery of tests
5) Recognize practical limitations to testing

Answer 19

Role as a Fitness Appraisal Specialist

Question 20

What is a battery of tests?

Answer 20

Group of tests measuring a group of outcomes (i.e. Laboratory Tests, Laboratory-Like Tests, Field Tests)

Question 21

What practical limitations are there to testing?

Answer 21

Accessibility (Cost, Athletes available, Equipment/Facilities, Support Personnel)

Level of Competition and Frequency of Tests.

Question 22

Example of Constructing a battery of tests and looking at practical limitations (Soccer)

Answer 22

Sport Characteristics and Skills that match the characteristics that can be tested

Question 23

Headers (Sport Characteristic)

Answer 23

Jump ability would be a matched testable skill for assessing headers in soccer

Question 24

Changes in Direction (Sport Characteristic)

Answer 24

Testing for Agility

Question 25

Sprints in 2-3 seconds

Answer 25

Testing via Linear Sprints

Question 26

100-200 sprints

Answer 26

Repeated sprint ability

Question 27

10-12k traveled

Answer 27

Aerobic Fitness (VO2Max test or stamina)

Question 28

Interpretation and Feedback of Results (Role as a Fitness Appraisal Specialist)

Answer 28

Easy to Understand
Objectively Measured
Evidence-informed Interpretations based on Appropriate Comparative Data

Question 29

NHL Entry-Draft Combine

Answer 29

Created by York Professors that ran a battery of tests for elite athletes. The core of it was measuring how fit these people are and the fitness tests need to reflect the demands of the sport.