'Fitness Tests - GCSE Physical Education (PE) Revision'

'Fitness Tests - GCSE Physical Education (PE) Revision'
01:27 Jan 31
'Fitness Tests - GCSE Physical Education (PE) Revision: Get Unlimited Access to GCSE Tutor Videos & Online Revision Here for £19.99: http://www.revisionapp.co.uk/product/online-gcse-revision/   Testing your fitness levels after exercise is great in order to see just how healthy you are. It is best to test both before and after exercise in order to get a clearer picture of how far your fitness has progressed. Simple Tests  There are a few tests that you can do to get a basic idea of your fitness and general health levels:  Heart Rate Monitors: You can use these to see how strenuous one particular activity is on your heart by taking before, during and after readings of your heart rate.  Pedometers: This measures the amount of steps you have taken and is useful for getting a basic reading of how many calories you have burnt.  Diary Keeping: This is just one way of documenting the physical activity you do and can be a useful tool for noticing and noting improvements in personal fitness.    Cardiovascular Endurance  There are two main cardiovascular fitness tests that you can conduct yourself in order to get a more accurate reading of your fitness levels:  Multi-stage fitness test: This is also known as the ‘bleep test’, where you run shuttles (back and forth) between two points 20 metres apart within the time it takes the system to make the bleep sound. The speed of the bleeps will increase as time progresses through different levels. If you miss three bleeps in a row then your total number of bleeps completed is noted and this is your ‘final score’. This is a test of endurance and fitness and gives a much clearer image of your fitness by pinning it to a certain ‘bleep level’.  Harvard step test: Take a 45cm high step and complete 30 step ups a minute for five minutes. Rest for one minute, then take a 15 second pulse reading (multiply by 4 to get final heart rate). Then use this formula to figure out your fitness level:  Length of exercise (seconds) × 100 divided by 5.5 × pulse count. The higher your final score, the fitter you are.  GCSE Physical Education (PE) Revision: http://www.revisionapp.co.uk/gcse-physical-education/' 

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