1.4: Assessing your health and fitness: PAR-Q: Before starting any exercise programme, you need to know that you are ready to do so. PAR-Q = PHYSICAL ACTIVITY READINESS QUESTIONNAIRE. This type of questionnaire is designed to ask questions on your general health to find out if there any health issues. Questions asked are likely to be: Do you suffer from high blood pressure? Do you smoke? Do suffer from any long term illness? Fitness Tests: How Cardiovascular Endurance is Measured There are many ways of measuring Cardiovascular Endurance using maximal and sub-maximal tests such as: – The Multistage Fitness Test (maximal) progressive 20 meter shuttle run in time with bleeps. Measure the level of bleeps you reached The 12 minute Cooper Run (sub-maximal) – run a measured course for 12 minutes work out the distance covered The Harvard Step Test (sub-maximal) - stepping on and off a bench at a rate of 30 times per minute for 5 minutes. Check recovery rate every minute for 5 minutes. How Muscular Strength is Measured How Flexibility is Measured Flexibility is measure using the Sit and Reach Test which is described below.
1.4: Assessing your health and fitness: PAR-Q: Before starting any exercise programme, you need to know that you are ready to do so. PAR-Q = PHYSICAL ACTIVITY READINESS QUESTIONNAIRE. This type of questionnaire is designed to ask questions on your general health to find out if there any health issues. Questions asked are likely to be: Do you suffer from high blood pressure? Do you smoke? Do suffer from any long term illness? Fitness Tests: How Cardiovascular Endurance is Measured There are many ways of measuring Cardiovascular Endurance using maximal and sub-maximal tests such as: The Multistage Fitness Test (maximal) – progressive 20 meter shuttle run in time with bleeps. Measure the level of bleeps you reached The 12 minute Cooper Run (sub-maximal) – run a measured course for 12 minutes work out the distance covered The Harvard Step Test (sub-maximal) - stepping on and off a bench at a rate of 30 times per minute for 5 minutes. Check recovery rate every minute for 5 minutes. How Muscular Strength is Measured How Flexibility is Measured Flexibility is measure using the Sit and Reach Test which is described below.
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