Fitness Evaluation

Question 1

General Health and Fitness Evaluations

Answer 1

Informed consent
Pre-screening
Resting measures/vitals
Body composition/anthropometric measures
Measurements of cardiorespiratory fitness
Measurements of muscular fitness
Measurements of flexibility/balance

Question 2

Clinical vs Lab Assessment

Answer 2

Labs have more equipment so can do more gold standard testing.
If you work in a high-performance clinic or with professional sports teams you may have access to all of this to do testing.
Clinics do not always have the luxury of this equipment so need to be more creative and functional.

Question 3

Ceiling Effect

Answer 3

Test administered is too easy so clients do well on it.
Test will not accurately show you functional ability or fitness.

Question 4

Floor Effect

Answer 4

Test administered is too hard so client are likely to score low or fail, and be potentially dangerous to a client.
Test will also not accurately show you functional ability or fitness