Medford Study
Boys Growth Study
1956-1968
Medford Study
 Look
at growth of boys 7-18
 Physical & Motor Characteristics
 Longitudinal Study
 No Females
 Dated Material
Physical Fitness
 World
A
Book Definition
personal responsibility
 A combination of qualities enable a
person to perform well in vigorous
physical activity
 Healthy people may be unfit if they don’t
exercise regularly
 Aufsesser Definition
Physical Fitness
 Benefits
 Better
of Physical Fitness
physical performance is only one
benefit
 Increase capacity & efficiency of the heart
 Help maintain proper weight
 Fit people tend to be slender and look
better than those who are unfit
 Greater resistance to disease
Benefits
 Recover
faster if become ill
 Fit people may be “ Happier”, more
alert and relaxed
 May be able to resist the effects of
aging better than those who are unfit
Historical Look at Fitness
 Basis
for physical education programs
 YMCA Triangle
 Early Programs in New England
 Dudley
 Harvard
Step Test
 Rogers PFI
 Kraus Weber Fitness Test
 1960
Presidents Council
Components of Physical
Fitness
 Health
related
 Strength
 Muscular
Endurance
 Cardiovascular Endurance
 Flexibility
 Skill
related Aspects
 Balance
 Reaction
Time
Skill Related ( cont.)
 Coordination
 Agility
 Speed
 Fitness
Tests usually tap one or more
areas
 Early Tests Health Related
 Many Tests combine areas
Fitness Tests
 1960
Presidents Council on Physical
Fitness ( Kennedy)
 Focus on Health Related Aspects of
Fitness
 Businesses Fitness Programs
 Exxon
New Jersey
 Productivity
 Health of Executives
Fitness Tests
 Kraus
Weber, 1958
 AAHPERD Youth Fitness. 1976
 Health Related Fitness, 1980
 Physical Best
 Fitness Gram
 Jump Rope for Heart
 Hoops for Heart
Fitness Tests
 AAHPERD
Youth Fitness Test (1965)
 Revised 1976
 Versions
 Pull-up
 Sit-up
 Standing
broad jump
 Shuttle run
 50 yard dash
Youth Fitness Test
 600
yard run/walk
 Softball throw for distance
 Modifications
 Delete
600 run/walk:
 Replaced with 1 mile or 9 min. (13&
under)
 or 1.5 mile or 12 minute (13 & Up)
 Delete Softball throw
Health Related Fitness
Test
 Defined
Fitness as:Cardiorespiratory
 Body Composition ( leanness)
 Abdominal and low back strength
 Items:
 Cardiovascular
9
minute or 1 mile
 1.5 mile or 12 minute
Health Related Items
 Body
Composition
 Sum
of triceps & subscapularis
 Abdominal
 Modified
& Low Back
Timed Sit-up(60 seconds)
 Sit & Reach
Use of Fitness Tests
 Diagnosis
strengths/ weaknesses
 Set objectives
 Program evaluation
 Demonstrate importance of program
 Motivate kids
 Improve public relations
Overweight & Obesity
 Definitions
 10%
ideal weight
 20% ideal weight
 Video
“ Fat Chance in a Thin World
 Set-point
theory
 Madison Avenue
 Anorexia
 Bulimia
Eating Disorders
 Definition:
an abnormal relationship
with food.
 Anorexia
 Bulimia
 Binge
eating disorder (BED)
 Compulsive over eating
 All
are considered mental disorders
Anorexia
 Definition:
described as an obsession
with being thin
 Called the starving Disease
 There is no correlation with their
actual weight and their desire
 90% are females
Bulimia
 Eat
and purge
 Vomiting
 Diuretics
 Laxative
abuse
Obesity
 Baby
Fat Myth