Understanding the Basics of Fitness Assessment - Xdrona

Assessment of Fitness is an important part of any activity for measuring the status of an individual's fitness during their journey. Assessing fitness in sports first is initially very important for setting the right path of one's journey.

How do we define Fitness Assessment?

Fitness Assessment generally involves the evaluation of our overall body health & levels of physical fitness through different series of assessment tests. Different purposes for fitness testing are 

 

• Measured when an individual joins the gym.
• Monitoring or tracking a person's fitness in a sports activity or gym over a while.
• Fitness assessment before taking part in any physical activity or organization that requires strong mental & physical strength. 
• For generally determining the health condition of any individual person.

We will talk in brief about the stages & elements involved in the Sports Assessment of physical fitness. 

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Why is the Physical Fitness test important in sports?

Physical Fitness test helps us in finding & determining our weaknesses & strengths while performing physical activities. But there are some factors which are considered before conducting the Sports Fitness Assessment. Let's dive into this and learn more about it.

 

• Athlete's Age- Age helps in determining the intensity of physical activities that an athlete can perform. It becomes easy to create an individualized plan as everyone's body strength is different. Goals can be set to get the desired results.
• Injury History - Knowledge of injury history helps prevent any such events by designing the required tests & getting the best results.
• Set Goals- Peak Performance in sports can be achieved if the right goals are set from the beginning helps in forming a base of one's journey.

Important Stages involved in Fitness Assessment Tests

1.     Selecting the right test - This stage starts by choosing the appropriate tests like specific, general & health tests. Specific tests are strictly performed based on individual sports. Those parameters are tests that are specific to a particular sport. General tests give us important information about specific parameters related to fitness that is needed to be trained. These can include parameters such as agility, speed tests, strength tests, endurance tests, etc.

2.      Health tests involve Different parameters such as weight, height, heart rate, sleep, a mood which are regularly monitored. Simple warming-up exercises can also be included.

3.      Accurately Measurements - This stage involves measuring the regular performance of athletes so that errors can be found. Strict protocols are set to prevent cheating. Following tools are kept by trainers during the assessment period- pens, stopwatch, tapes, spare batteries, etc.

4.      Analyzation & Feedback - The performance of athletes is visualized through data prepared during the assessment period. Experts analyze data for honest feedback on athletes' performance. This is a very important stage.

Elements of an Effective Fitness Assessment Tests

• Composition of the body - involves the use of tools for measuring body composition.
• Evaluation of Health - Fitness journey begins first by evaluating health.
• Joints Flexibility- It's done to check the joint's mobility.
• Muscle Strength-Involves tests to check muscle strength ( time taken by the group of muscles for contracting ).
• Cardiovascular Endurance- This measures how long an individual can last during aerobic exercises without getting fatigued.

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