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Aerobic Endurance Fitness Tests

Read each test description carefully. Answer using the information on this sheet and your knowledge of aerobic endurance. Fitness testing should be supervised, and participants should stop if they feel unwell.

The farmers’ market fitness challenge

At a weekend farmers’ market, Rhys, Freya and Isla are helping plan a supervised fitness challenge. They want to understand which tests assess aerobic endurance and how to make the results useful.

Identify the tests

Use the descriptions to distinguish aerobic endurance tests from tests of other fitness components.

1.Which test is designed mainly to assess aerobic endurance?

One-minute press-up test
Multi-stage fitness test
Standing broad jump
Sit-and-reach test

2.The 12-minute Cooper run assesses aerobic endurance by measuring how far a participant can run in 12 minutes.

TrueFalse

3.Match each test to the correct description.

Multi-stage fitness test
Yo-Yo test
Harvard step test
12-minute Cooper run

Repeated shuttle runs with short recovery periods
Covers as much distance as possible in 12 minutes
Stepping up and down on a platform at a set pace
Runs between two lines in time with bleeps that get faster

4.Freya suggests a one-minute press-up test as an aerobic endurance test. Is she correct? Name the main fitness component this test assesses instead.

5.Rhys plays a team sport with frequent bursts of running and brief pauses. Explain why the Yo-Yo test may be relevant to the demands of his sport.

Make the results trustworthy

A useful test should assess the fitness component it claims to assess and produce consistent results when repeated under similar conditions.

6.A test is repeated a week later under the same conditions and gives a very similar result. Which quality does this demonstrate: validity or consistency?

Validity
Consistency

7.Isla is organising a shuttle-run fitness test. Give two steps she could take to help make the results reliable for everyone taking part.

8.Explain what validity means in fitness testing. Then describe one reason why a test result might not be a valid measure of aerobic endurance.

9.The market team wants to compare how far participants can run in a fixed 12-minute period. Which aerobic endurance test should they choose, and what should they record?

10.In a short response, explain the difference between measuring the intended fitness component and getting consistent results when a test is repeated. Include one practical way to make repeated results more consistent.