How can exercise assessment and prescription be personalised?
Content Point Two
Discuss the use of performance/fitness testing for recreational participants and elite athletes to improve their health, participation and performance
Example(s):
Yo yo test.
Wingate test.
NESA Glossary of Key Words:
Discuss - Identify issues and provide points for and/or against.
The use of performance/fitness testing for recreational and elite athletes
How can exercise assessment and prescription be personalised?
Content Point Two
Discuss the use of performance/fitness testing for recreational participants and elite athletes to improve their health, participation and performance
Example(s):
Yo yo test.
Wingate test.
NESA Glossary of Key Words:
Discuss - Identify issues and provide points for and/or against.
The Yoyo Test/The Wingate Test
How can exercise assessment and prescription be personalised?
Content Point Two
Discuss the use of performance/fitness testing for recreational participants and elite athletes to improve their health, participation and performance
Example(s):
Yo yo test.
Wingate test.
NESA Glossary of Key Words:
Discuss - Identify issues and provide points for and/or against.
Benefits to health, participation and performance
Learning Activities
1. View the following clip The Importance of Fitness Testing and list three key points about Fitness Testing.
2. Participate in the Yoyo test as a class:
- Set up two cones 20m apart (with a 5m recovery zone behind the start line).
- Participants run back and forth between the cones, following the pace of the beeps.
- After each shuttle, there is a 10-second active recovery where the athlete walks/jogs to the recovery zone and returns.
- The speed gradually increases. When a participant fails to reach the line twice in a row,
their test ends.
- Record the level and number of shuttles completed.
Students answer the following questions on completion of the test:
- How did you feel during the test?
- What stage did you reach? Was this what you expected?
- What does your result tell you about your current aerobic fitness level?
Discuss the following as a class:
- What are some factors that could affect Yo-Yo Test performance (e.g. motivation, surface, sleep)?
- How are results likely to vary for recreational and elite athletes?
- How could the results from the Yoyo test be used to inform training for recreational and elite athletes?
Revision Questions
1. Outline examples of tests that could be used to measure fitness.
2. Describe the Yoyo test for aerobic fitness.
3. Explain how performance/fitness testing can be used to improve health.
4. Discuss the links between performance/fitness testing and improved participation and performance.
5. Compare the use of performance/fitness testing for recreational participants and elite athletes.
Sample Answers
Sample answers coming soon.
