Fitness assessment is the most important thing that S&C coaches and trainers should do before starting any type of fitness training, this slide will help you to know the importance and uses also the types of fitness testing.

1. Fitness
Assessment
———— Sharmiladevi ————
Sports scientist

2. Contents
Types of fitness tests
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Laboratory and field based testing
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Fitness assessment in general people
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Fitness assessment in athletes
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1 The Role of Fitness Testing
References

3. • Physical fitness is defined as a set of attributes that people have or achieve that
relates to the ability to perform physical activity.
• It is also characterized by (1) an ability to perform daily activities with vigor, and
(2) a demonstration of traits and capacities that are associated with a low risk of
premature development of hypokinetic diseases (e.g., those associated with physical
inactivity).
• Exercise training is a safe and effective therapy to ameliorate side effects associated
with cancer treatment, including reduced fitness and quality of life, but has not been
universally adopted as part of standard care for cancer in North America
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Introduction

4. • The fitness professional will cover each of the components of fitness during your
training, and should be familiar with fitness testing for sport and exercise as a method of
health evaluation.
• Fitness testing can certainly help improvin performance. The potential uses and benefits
of fitness testing are:
• It gives the trainer a solid idea of the client’s current fitness levels, which is a vital
information that is required before creating an exercise programme
• Helps to target and improve any areas of fitness that the client is lacking in.
• It becomes much easier to track the client’s progress within the different areas of fitness,
and also to make any required adjustments and tailor the programme further.
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5. • To provide useful information, fitness tests must fulfil certain criteria, which if not
achieved could produce misleading information with undesirable consequences.
Therefore fitness tests must be:
Principles of fitness assessment
Sport specific/applicable The test must mimic one or a combination of the fitness
demands of that sport.
Valid It must assess what it is intending to and also should be sport
specific
Reliable How repeatable and consistent a test is
Accurate It is incorporated into the test validity and reliability and covers
the accuracy to which measurements can be recorded.
Sufficiently sensitive to detect changes
in fitness
A test must be sufficiently sensitive to detect changes in fitness
or else hard earned fitness gains could go undetected, which
may severely de-motivate the performer

6. Physical fitness is a complex, multifaceted phenomenon, composed of:
• Cardiovascular endurance
• Muscular endurance
• Muscular strength
• Flexibility and joint mobility
• Body composition
• Speed
• Power
• Agility
• Balance and coordination
Types of fitness tests

7. • To highlight the strengths and weakness of an athlete enabling a training
program to be devised which addresses the findings
• To evaluate a training program, to see if it is helping the athlete in
achieving set goals
• To measure fitness levels following injury, illness or following the
offseason
• To assist in setting goals
• To determine health status (in the non-sporting population)
• Talent identification
• To aid motivation
Benefits

8. Factors affecting fitness asessment

9. • Physical fitness assessment: an update. PubMed Wilder, Robert P; Greene,
Jill Amanda; Winters, Kathryne L; Long, William B; Gubler, K; Edlich,
Richard F.
• ACSM’s guidelines for exercise testing and prescription. American College
of Sports Medicine (2007).7th ed. Phil: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
• Sport and Exercise Physiological Testing Guidelines: Volume 1: Sport
Testing. British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences (2007) Oxon:
Routledge.
• A Guide to Field Based Fitness Testing. NCF (1995) Leeds: National
Coaching Foundation.
• British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences, 114 Cardigan Road,
Headingley, LEEDS
References

10. • Determining health & fitness levels
• Identifying any strengths & weaknesses
• Assisting in setting fitness goals
• Evaluating fitness programmes
• Assessing fitness levels post-injury or illness
• Boosting motivation
• Assessing potential employees
Summary

11. THANK YOU
Sharmiladevi, sports &exercise scientist