BTEC SPORT - Fitness tests|48 Questions and Answers

BTEC SPORT - Fitness tests|48
Questions and Answers
Body Composition - -BMI (Body mass index)

- BMI - -weight (kg) / height (m^2)

- BMI advantages - -Easy to carry out

- BMI disadvantages - -Results can be misleading as muscles weigh more
than fat

- Body Composition - -BIA (Bioelectric impedance analysis)

- BIA - -Electricity passed through body from wrist to ankle

- BIA advantages - -Quick and easy to use, portable, low cost, repeatable

- BIA disadvantages - -Need expensive equipment

- Body Composition - -Sum of skinfolds

- Skinfold test - -Use callipers to measure skinfolds

- Female Skinfold test - -Triceps, Supraillac, Thigh

- Male Skinfold test - -Chest, abdominal, thigh

- Aerobic Endurance - -Multi stage fitness test

- Bleep test - -repeated 20m shuttles at progressively increasing speeds
until exhaustion is reached

- Bleep test advantages - -Test a large group at once, maximum effort

- Bleep test disadvantages - -Practice can affect, Enviroment can affect

- Aerobic Endurance - -Forestry Step Test

- Forestry Step Test - -Step up and down on bench at constant speed for 5
minutes

- Forestry Step Test advantages - -Low cost, inside or outside, individual