The Fitness Constructed Response Question Format:
Write Your Own Questions

The Fitness Level Analysis and Program Design Constructed Response Questions follow a general format and it isn't hard to make up your own practice constructed response questions.  In fact, making up your own questions is a great way to study for the test.  I have included guides to formatting constructed response questions in this section.  I suggest that you look closely at the way the constructed response questions are formatted and that you write practice questions of your own. 

The Fitness Question Format

The FITNESSGRAM health-related fitness test battery includes the ______________ test.  [insert 1 of the following tests in the blank: the PACER, one-mile run/walk, body composition, curl-up, push-up, pull-up, modified pull-up, flexed arm hang, trunk lift, or the back-saver sit-and-reach]

The table below indicates the HEALTHY FITNESS ZONE for four individual boys and girls for the ________________ test  [insert your choice of test type here] and each individual’s score on the test.

______________________ [insert your choice of test type here]

For each of the four individuals whose scores are given in the table, describe a safe and effective six-week program of exercises that the individual could engage in to improve in the ________________ test  [insert your choice of test type here] or to maintain fitness if the individual’s score is already in the Healthy Fitness Zone. The exercise programs should be appropriate to age and developmental level of the individuals for whom they are recommended and should also be appropriate for the level of fitness indicated by the individual’s score.

V.  Identify one principle of motor learning, motor development, exercise physiology, or biomechanics that can be used to justify or explain some aspect of one or more of the recommended exercise programs. Explain how this principle justifies or explains that aspect of the program or programs.