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Fitness Testing Spreadsheets

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Pedometers

Body Fat Analyzers

These students are wearing to pedometers to track their steps. We should walking 10,000 steps a day!

A sample lesson Fitness Testing:

Crunch Test: How many crunches can you do in 1 min.use a stop watch and students partner up)

Push Up Test: How many push-ups can you do before failure? Partner Up

Fitness Testing PACER test: this is a test of your cardiorespiratory endurance. (Running lines) Mile Run: How fast can you run a mile in? Flexibility Test: perform the sit and reach test on a measured box. Height and weight: take your measurements on the scale and on the tape measure

taped on the wall. Body Fat: Put your information into the body fat analyzer.

What to do with the data?

Fitness Testing Data: Crunch Test, Push Up Test, PACER test, Mile Run, Flexibility Test, Height and weight and Body

Fat Percentage.

With this data written on a piece of paper from the gym, now insert it into the spreadsheet in the computer lab.

This could also be a Webquest project.

Now research what a person your age should do to get an increase in fitness. Set 1 short term and 1 long term goal to help achieve better fitness.

Take the fitness test again at the end of the year and plot the improvements.