0092 Student Fitness Answer 2

The Question

Given below are scores for two students on the FitnessGram health-related fitness test.

Use the fitness scores and standards that appear in the table to complete the tasks below.

1. Identify the health-related fitness component measured by each test administered to the students.
    
2. Assess each student's strengths and weaknesses and describe what you would say to each student about his or her performance.
    
3. Design an appropriate six-week fitness/exercise program for one of the two students.
    
   1. The exercise program should be for use in the student's physical education class and/or for the student's use on his/her own time.
       
   2. The exercises should enable the student to improve each fitness component in which he or she scored below the healthy fitness standard and to maintain or improve each fitness component in which the student's score was in the acceptable range.
       
   3. Prescribe a fitness program using standards related to frequency, intensity, duration and mode of physical activity appropriate to the student's needs. Indicate the exercises the student should perform while following the program.
       
4. Identify principles of training you used to design the program and indicate how they were appropriately applied.

The Answer

1. Aerobic capacity, VO2max
    
2.    
    

   To male:

   You need to improve your body composition, we can work out better nutritional food choices. The areas you were best in were curl ups and the back-saver sit-and-reach, flexibility. However, these need to be maintained by continuing to practice these exercises.
    

   To female:

   Body fat needs to be improved; we can regulate diet, incorporate an aerobic plan. We also need to improve abdominal strengths and thrunk strength, as well as upper body strength. Your back-saver sit-and-reach measuring flexibility was a definite strong point, but can still be maintained by stretching.
    

3. For female:

   We need to begin in working on our one-mile scores. (Make successful initially). Let student choose from a list of aerobic activities given to her by me. (Jogging, roller skating, swimming.) She can choose any of them, but must perform them 3 times a week for at least 10 minutes. (Supposed to be non-tiring) This is done mostly at home. This will also help to decrease body fat %. Let the student keep records of what eaten (at home and school), and to avoid high fat foods, and to eat more carbs and fruits & vegetables. Ab strength can be addressed by: practicing curl-ups at home (start w/ 10) and during the fitness component of the PE lesson. She may also find a videotape of a variety of ab exercises helpful. Upper body strength can be helped by practicing push-ups with a variations to break monotony. She can maintain flexibility by stretching out good (all parts) before activity.

   Each week the girl can: measure her time spent in activity, until she is working at least 30 minutes in any aerobic activity, but at least 3 times a week. She can continue recording her food intake and watching her food. She can also add 5 more curl-ups to her plan each week. She can add more push=up variations to her workload w/ each week, increase self-esteem. She can practice flexibility by stretching out prior activity and afterward.
    

4. The Principles Applied

   Progression - The program successively moved from simple (feeling success) to more complex. Starting out with low time and intensity to higher intensity and complexity

   Individuality - The plan provided for the girl's individual response to exercise. She increased her reps (abs) and time when she felt like she was ready to

   Specificity - The exercises were also specific to the parts of her fitness that needed work. There was not a lot of emphasis on flexibility, but on maintenance. More emphasis was placed on aerobic, cardiovascular, abs & upper body strength to get the desired outcomes.