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
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