TEST AND MEASUREMENT IN SPORTS
Contents
• Motor Fitness Test – 50 M Standing Start, 600 M Run/ Walk, sit and Reach, Partial Curl Up, Push Ups (Boys), Modified Push Ups (Girls), Standing Broad Jump, Agility – 4x 10 M Shuttle Run.
• General Motor Fitness – Barrow three item general motor ability (Standing Broad Jump, Zig Zag Run, Medicine Ball Put – For Boys: 03 Kg and For Girls: 01 Kg).
• Measurement of Cardio-Vascular Fitness – Harvard Step Test/Rockport Test -Computation of Fitness Index: Duration of the Exercise in Seconds x 100 5.5 x Pulse count of 1-1.5 Min after Exercise.
• Rikli and Jones - Senior Citizen Fitness Test 1. Chair Stand Test for lower body strength 2. Arm Curl Test for upper body strength 3. Chair Sit and Reach Test for lower body flexibility 4. Back Scratch Test for upper body flexibility 5. Eight Foot Up and Go Test for agility 6. Six Minute Walk Test for Aerobic Endurance.
Learning Outcomes:
After completing this chapter, you will be able to:
• perform 50 M Standing Start, 600 M Run/ Walk, sit and Reach, Partial Curl Up, Push Ups (Boys), Modified Push Ups (Girls), Standing Broad Jump, Agility – 4x 10 M Shuttle Run
• demonstrate Barrow three item general motor ability test
• compute physical fitness Index through Harvard Step Test/Rockport Test
• describe the procedure of Rikli and Jones - Senior Citizen Fitness Test
Discussion
Discuss with your group
• What are the areas that a physical fitness test evaluates?
• How many of you can test your own fitness?
• What are the criteria that you will employ to test your own fitness?
• What is the aim of testing for physical fitness?
• Have you heard of motor fitness? What is it? How is it tested?
• Have you heard about broad jump?
Do you Know
Test protocol is the correct procedure for carrying out a test. If a test is done incorrectly, it might affect the results.
Valid A test is valid if it measures what it sets out to measure e.g., a test for upper body
strength should not measure leg strength.
Motor fitness refers to the neuromuscular components of fitness, which enable a person to perform successfully at a particular motor skill, game, or activity. Specific motor fitness components include agility, balance, coordination, power, reaction time, and speed. Motor fitness is sometimes referred to as skill-related fitness.
6.1.1 Motor Fitness Test
6.1.2 50 M Standing Start: Boys and Girls
Purpose: To determine running speed and acceleration of a student.
Objective: To cover the set distance as fast as possible.
Equipment: Flat and clean field with markings; stopwatch.
Procedure: There will be distance of 50 meters between two straight lines – starting line and finishing line.At least two officials are required to successfully complete the process, one who stands behind the standing line to
give commands “On your mark” and “Go” along with a downward sweep of her/his arm thereby giving visual signal to the other official who stands perpendicular to the finishing line to clock the timing.
The student will take a standing start and run as fast as possible to give her/his best time.
Scoring: The total time taken to complete the distance between the command “Go” and when the student crosses the finish line to nearest tenth of a second.
6.1.3 600 M Run / Walk
Purpose: To determine the endurance of a student.
Objective: To cover the set distance as fast as possible.
Equipment: Flat and clean field with markings; stopwatch.
Procedure: Student should be informed about the distance before the start of the run/walk.
One official will give command “On your mark” and “Go” with visual signal to the other official. The student will run or walk and cover the distance in the shortest possible time.The test may be done in a group, but the number of officials must be the same as the number of participants.
Scoring: The total time taken to complete the distance between the command “Go” and when the student crosses the finish line to nearest tenth of a second.
Testing motor fitness consists of measuring of all components of motor fitness (agility, coordination, balance, speed, reaction time). Motor fitness test provides to the student a score regarding the level of fitness, effectiveness of any training programme, and present status, thereby motivating her/him to do better etc.
Following tests are employed to test motor fitness:
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