Fitness test administration for all items class 12 project

AAPHER stands for American Alliance
for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation. It has created a physical
fitness test which has six test items designed to measure the physical fitness
of boys and girls in grades five to twelve. The six items are:

1. Pull ups: It judges the arm and
shoulder girdle strength. This item has to be done using the overhead grasp
from a hanging position on the bar. The arms and legs should be fully extended.
The person should raise his body with his arms until the chin is above the bar.
Then he should lower the body to the full hanging position. While doing this,
the knees should not be bent. The number of completed pull-ups is the person's
score.

For girls the pull ups have to be
started from a flexed arm hang.

2. Flexed Leg Situps: It judges the
efficiency of the abdominal and hip flexor muscles. The person should lie on
his back with knees flexed. The hands should be placed at the back of the neck.
Fingers should be clasped and the elbows should touch the mat. The person
should raise his head and elbows forward until the elbows touch the knees. This
is considered to be one sit-up. The score depends on the number of correct
sit-ups a person performs in 60 seconds.

3. Shuttle Run: It judges the speed
and change of direction. Two parallel lines are drawn 30 feet apart. Two wooden
blocks are placed behind one line. When the signal 'Ready', 'Go' is given the
person who is standing behind the other line should run and pick up one block.
He should run back and place the block behind the starting line. He should
repeat the same with the second block. He is given two trials. The better one out
of the two trials (nearest to the 10th of a second), is the score of the
person.

4. Standing Long Jump: It judges
the explosive power of the leg muscles. The person has to stand behind a
take-off line with his feet apart. Then he has to jump forward. He is given
three trials. The best jump is his score.

5. 50 Yard Dash or Sprint: It
judges speed. Two lines are drawn 50 yards apart. The person has to run from
the start to the finish line. The time taken is recorded in seconds (nearest to
the 10th of a second), this is his score.

6. 600 Yard Run: It judges the
person's endurance. In this, the person has to run for a distance of 600 yards.
The person can walk in between. But the goal is to cover the distance in the
shortest time. The time taken to cover the distance is recorded in minutes and
seconds.

The test helps the physical
education teachers to find out the performance levels of the students. It helps
them to compare their performance with the national norms and inspire the
students towards higher levels of achievement.