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School Fitness Testing
Fitness testing is a common part of the curriculum in many schools. There are a few testing programs that have been developed for school age children, with tests designed to be appropriate for those ages.
Children / School Age Tests
- FitnessGram —Although the program is designed to assess the fitness levels of children in grades K-12, the program is also appropriate for use with young adults up to age 30. FitnessGram assesses three general components of health-related physical fitness: aerobic capacity, body composition and muscular strength, endurance, and flexibility.
- Presidents Challenge — a fitness award program for school age children in the United States.
It includes four separate programs, which are:
- the Active Lifestyle Program which encourages both students and adults to include activity in their everyday lives.
- Health Fitness Test which encourages students to achieve a healthy level of fitness.
- Physical Fitness Test which promotes a basic level of fitness among students, through performances in five physical fitness tests: curl-ups or partial curl-ups, shuttle run, endurance run/walk, pull-ups (right angle push-ups, flexed-arm hang), and V-sit (sit and reach).
- Presidential Champions Program which challenges students and adults to reach a high level of activity and fitness.
- Eurofit Physical Fitness Test Battery — A standardized test battery of nine physical fitness tests covering flexibility, speed, endurance and strength, devised by the Council of Europe for children of school age and has been used in many European schools since 1988.
- National Physical Fitness Awards — fitness testing program for Singapore's schools. It involves a series of five testing stations: Sit-ups, Standing Broad Jump, Sit and Reach, Pull-ups (for secondary students only), Inclined Pull-ups, Shuttle Agility Run, and a Walk-Run Test.
- International Physical Fitness Test — a program developed for Arab youth aged 9 to 19 years. There are five fitness tests: 50-meter sprint test for measuring speed and acceleration, the flexed-arm hang for relative strength, the 10-meter shuttle run for measuring relative power, speed and suppleness, the Back throw, as a measure of power, and the 1,000-meter run for aerobic fitness.
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