Assessment: President’s Challenge Fitness Test Pre-Test

DIRECTIONS

Access the site by clicking this link to the President’s Challenge Fitness Test.  Then, proceed according to the instructions.

  • Carefully read all the important material provided on the pages of the site.
  • Step 1 – Click on the “Take the Adult Fitness Test” box.  Complete all of the fitness tests. Enter your body composition information.
  • Step 2 – Click on the “Enter Your Data Online Here” box and enter your fitness test results in the online form to receive an evaluation.  **Be honest!  Make sure that the information you provide is correct and accurate.  Click on the “Calculate Your Results” button to see your results.  Save a copy of the results by highlighting and copying the text of the evaluation and pasting the copied text into a blank Word document.  Do not copy the whole page: copy only the date and the chart.   (Remember, you will take the tests three times during the course).

For your own records, you can repeat this fitness test as often as you like.  Look at the “Interpret & Improve” pages for each of the tests to see what you can do to improve.

GRADING

Your work will be assessed using the Pre-Test Rubric:

Criteria

Absent

Present

Aerobic Fitness

 0 points

1 Point

Must include time, heart rate, VO2 max, and score (percentile)

Muscular fitness

 0 points

1 Point

Must include half sit-ups, push-ups,and scores (percentile) for each

Flexibility

 0 points

1 Points

Must include sit-and-reach result and score (percentile)

BMI

 0 points

1 Point

Waist circumference

 0 points

1 Point