The New Year's resolutions often include fitness goals and, following the example of the game show that asks a similar question about the intelligence, are you fitter than a fifth grader? To answer that, you remember the fitness test Presidency nowadays primary school?
If not, you should. These days the primary school is long gone, but the test can be a current assessment of fitness in our thirties, forties, fifties, sixties and seventies. Measures of physical capacity in base strength, endurance and flexibility. Even if your specific performance targets change with age, these skills are still valuable.
Back in the test of the primary school was a chance to shine, or for some, became a traumatic event. However, an assessment of adult health and fitness should include more than the results of an annual medical examination. Medical tests are essential, but injury prevention and quality of future life with age can be determined by the functional output of their physical abilities.
As we age, the standards of the presidential fitness test not only exposed to couch potatoes. Many adults who are admitted are one-dimensional. Having a gym conditioning important but lacking in other areas of proportional conditioning. Be in good shape can mean muscle strength, cardiovascular endurance and flexibility, but people rarely three.
Taking the test in grade school, assigning elite was given to children whose performance in the five assessments was in the top five percent of all participants of the same age. Your performance of these evaluations is the elite eleven fifth grader? Elite performance standards identified for each evaluation are ninety-fifth percentile of eleven participants depending on the population studied National School Adequacy 1985. As confirmation, which in 1998 were validated by comparison with a national sample collected in 1994. All performance standards courtesy of: Presidentschallenge.org
Because each test must be performed with a partner to help body position, counting, measuring, or calendar, it can be a shared motivation or opportunity for many people taking the test purpose together. You are ready to take the test now or is it a goal, here are five simple versions of assessments and standards for men and women of the elite eleven:
Assessment # 1: Abs. This evaluation is sitting on the floor with your legs in front of you, knees bent and feet flat on the ground about twelve inches in front of her buttocks. Use a partner hold your feet in place on the ground. Cross your arms, hands placed on opposite shoulders and elbows tight against his chest. To perform the evaluation, starting with the back touching the ground. Then (holding the arm in the position described) sit until your arms touch the thighs, and lower until your back touches the ground. Whenever you feel your arms and thighs are touching, it counts as one repetition. The evaluation is the number of repetitions performed in one minute. The elite standard is 47 to 40 years for men and two women.
Rating # 2: The shuttle run. Make two parallel lines of ten meters. Start the assessment of the situation behind one of the lines. For evaluation, continuous and fast as possible, the starting line of the race to the other line and touch the fingertips of one hand in this line, running back and touch fingertips one hand to the starting line, the race to the other line and touch the tips of the fingers of one hand in this line, running back and cross the finish line for evaluation. The elite standard is ten seconds for men and ten and a half seconds for women.
Assessment # 3: Sit and Reach. When you do this assessment seems like you're sitting up in bed, leaning forward and touch your toes. Start by making a line about two meters in length on the ground. Sit on the floor behind the line enough so that your legs can be directly in front of you (without bending the knees) and heels are a foot away and play online. Once properly positioned behind one side of the line, this web instead of a partner rule across the line, between the beads, with the line perpendicular to the "0" line play. To perform the assessment, from a sitting position. Then, keeping legs straight (knees straight) and the back of your legs on the floor with your fingers forward (the feet parallel to the ground as close as possible), leans forward at the waist and a hand reaching as far as you can between your feet and the rule. You can repeat this several times if you wish. Your partner is the rule to identify the greatest distance (beyond the line of beads) to reach your hand. The elite standard is four inches for men and six and a half inches for women.
Assessment # 4: Pull Ups. This assessment uses a horizontal bar at a height that can hold the bar with arms extended (right) and feet on the floor. With your hands on shoulder width, or with palms facing forward or both of your palms facing you, start each representing a bonding position with arms fully extended. Each repetition is to raise your body (no rolling or kicking legs) until your chin is above the bar and lower your body into a gripping position with arms fully extended. This evaluation time is not measured, performance evaluation is as many repetitions as possible. The standard is six elite pulls for men and three for women.
Note 5: Mile Run. For this assessment is correct, should be performed on the sidewalk, road, or laps around a track. Not to be performed using a treadmill. The elite standard is seven minutes and thirty two seconds for men, nine minutes and two seconds for women.
If not, you should. These days the primary school is long gone, but the test can be a current assessment of fitness in our thirties, forties, fifties, sixties and seventies. Measures of physical capacity in base strength, endurance and flexibility. Even if your specific performance targets change with age, these skills are still valuable.
Back in the test of the primary school was a chance to shine, or for some, became a traumatic event. However, an assessment of adult health and fitness should include more than the results of an annual medical examination. Medical tests are essential, but injury prevention and quality of future life with age can be determined by the functional output of their physical abilities.
As we age, the standards of the presidential fitness test not only exposed to couch potatoes. Many adults who are admitted are one-dimensional. Having a gym conditioning important but lacking in other areas of proportional conditioning. Be in good shape can mean muscle strength, cardiovascular endurance and flexibility, but people rarely three.
Taking the test in grade school, assigning elite was given to children whose performance in the five assessments was in the top five percent of all participants of the same age. Your performance of these evaluations is the elite eleven fifth grader? Elite performance standards identified for each evaluation are ninety-fifth percentile of eleven participants depending on the population studied National School Adequacy 1985. As confirmation, which in 1998 were validated by comparison with a national sample collected in 1994. All performance standards courtesy of: Presidentschallenge.org
Because each test must be performed with a partner to help body position, counting, measuring, or calendar, it can be a shared motivation or opportunity for many people taking the test purpose together. You are ready to take the test now or is it a goal, here are five simple versions of assessments and standards for men and women of the elite eleven:
Assessment # 1: Abs. This evaluation is sitting on the floor with your legs in front of you, knees bent and feet flat on the ground about twelve inches in front of her buttocks. Use a partner hold your feet in place on the ground. Cross your arms, hands placed on opposite shoulders and elbows tight against his chest. To perform the evaluation, starting with the back touching the ground. Then (holding the arm in the position described) sit until your arms touch the thighs, and lower until your back touches the ground. Whenever you feel your arms and thighs are touching, it counts as one repetition. The evaluation is the number of repetitions performed in one minute. The elite standard is 47 to 40 years for men and two women.
Rating # 2: The shuttle run. Make two parallel lines of ten meters. Start the assessment of the situation behind one of the lines. For evaluation, continuous and fast as possible, the starting line of the race to the other line and touch the fingertips of one hand in this line, running back and touch fingertips one hand to the starting line, the race to the other line and touch the tips of the fingers of one hand in this line, running back and cross the finish line for evaluation. The elite standard is ten seconds for men and ten and a half seconds for women.
Assessment # 3: Sit and Reach. When you do this assessment seems like you're sitting up in bed, leaning forward and touch your toes. Start by making a line about two meters in length on the ground. Sit on the floor behind the line enough so that your legs can be directly in front of you (without bending the knees) and heels are a foot away and play online. Once properly positioned behind one side of the line, this web instead of a partner rule across the line, between the beads, with the line perpendicular to the "0" line play. To perform the assessment, from a sitting position. Then, keeping legs straight (knees straight) and the back of your legs on the floor with your fingers forward (the feet parallel to the ground as close as possible), leans forward at the waist and a hand reaching as far as you can between your feet and the rule. You can repeat this several times if you wish. Your partner is the rule to identify the greatest distance (beyond the line of beads) to reach your hand. The elite standard is four inches for men and six and a half inches for women.
Assessment # 4: Pull Ups. This assessment uses a horizontal bar at a height that can hold the bar with arms extended (right) and feet on the floor. With your hands on shoulder width, or with palms facing forward or both of your palms facing you, start each representing a bonding position with arms fully extended. Each repetition is to raise your body (no rolling or kicking legs) until your chin is above the bar and lower your body into a gripping position with arms fully extended. This evaluation time is not measured, performance evaluation is as many repetitions as possible. The standard is six elite pulls for men and three for women.
Note 5: Mile Run. For this assessment is correct, should be performed on the sidewalk, road, or laps around a track. Not to be performed using a treadmill. The elite standard is seven minutes and thirty two seconds for men, nine minutes and two seconds for women.
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