U4AoS1 - Fitness Testing Flashcards

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What is the purpose of fitness testing?

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  • After activity analysis
  • Identification of fitness testing
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When does fitness testing occur?

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occurs pre, during and post training program

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Pre-testing

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Replicate physiological requirements identified in activity analysis
“batteries” of specific tests selected

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4
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Why pretest?

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  • assess strengths and weaknesses
  • motivation
  • determine positions
  • set bench marks/baseline data
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5
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How are strengths and weaknesses determined?

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Against norms and team results

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How does pretesting help strength and weaknesses

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design of specific training programs that maintains strengths and improves weaknesses

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7
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How can pretesting motivate?

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  • results of fitness testing motivates the athlete to improve
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8
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How can pretesting determine positions

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test scores indicate where an athlete is best suited in team positions

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9
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How can pretesting set bench marks?

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Data which future marks can be compared against

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10
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Testing during a training program should not occur earlier than

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6 weeks into a training program in order to allow time from chronic adaptations

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11
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Testing during a training program should helps with

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coach assessing program progression

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12
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Why should we test during a program

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motivate
evaluate training program effectiveness

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13
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Why does testing during a program motivate?

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set short term goals to achieve

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14
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Why does testing during a program evaluate training program effectiveness?

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determine if training is meeting goals
if an athlete has worse results - training is not specific/causing fatigue

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15
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post testing

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  • occurs once training program is completed
  • impact of training (success)
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16
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why post testing

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evaluate effectiveness of training program
- improved results= successful program, correct application of training principles
- review benchmarks
- motivation

17
Q

How to conduct fitness testing

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  1. Informed consent
  2. choosing tests/ health screening
  3. valid tests
  4. reliable accurate tests
18
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What is informed consent?

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Aims to minimize risk of harm to participants and test administrators
Acknowledgement of the risks associated

19
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What does informed consent protect?

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interests of the organization and participants from legal/ethical implications

20
Q

Choosing fitness tests

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  • physiological
  • pyschological
  • sociocultural
    appropriate to the individual
21
Q

Appropriate to the individual examples

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elderly
people with health conditions, specials needs

22
Q

Pre participation screening

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identify level of risk to participant, choose appropriate fitness test

23
Q

Physiological

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  • health/fitness levels
  • past/current injuries
  • chronic health conditions
  • medical conditions
  • pregnancy
  • smoker
24
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Psychological

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  • level of motivation
  • fitness/health goals
  • interests
  • beginner?
  • mental health conditions
25
Q

Sociocultural

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  • religion
  • SES
  • field vs lab testing (affordability, group testing)
26
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Reliability

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ability of a test to produce consistent and repeatable results

27
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Factors impacting reliability

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  • equipment
  • similar diet/hydration
  • similar conditions
  • tests
  • recovery between
  • sleep
  • time of day
  • order of tests
  • warmup
  • equipment
28
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Lab tests

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gold standard, performed by sports scientist, directly measures component being tested
highly accurate

29
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Field tests

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predict results

30
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Advantages of lab tests

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  • directly measure fitness components
  • accurate
  • good for elite athletes
  • meet gold standards
31
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Disadvantages of lab tests

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  • expensive
  • not for groups
  • time consuming
  • need expertise
  • interruption to training
32
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Advantages of field tests

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  • good for large groups
  • inexpensive
  • expensive not necessary
33
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Disadvantages of field tests

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  • not as accurate (prediction, not a test to exhaustion w/ exact measurements)
  • not as many norms available