Medford Study

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Medford Study

• Boys Growth Study
• 1956-1968

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Medford Study

• Look at growth of boys 7-18
• Physical Motor Characteristics
• Longitudinal Study
• No Females
• Dated Material

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Physical Fitness

• World Book Definition
• A personal responsibility
• A combination of qualities enable a person to
  perform well in vigorous physical activity
• Healthy people may be unfit if they dont
  exercise regularly
• Aufsesser Definition

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Physical Fitness

• Benefits of Physical Fitness
• Better 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

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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

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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

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Components of Physical Fitness

• Health related
• Strength
• Muscular Endurance
• Cardiovascular Endurance
• Flexibility
• Skill related Aspects
• Balance
• Reaction Time

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Skill Related ( cont.)

• Coordination
• Agility
• Speed
• Fitness Tests usually tap one or more areas
• Early Tests Health Related
• Many Tests combine areas

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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

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Fitness Tests

• Kraus Weber, 1958
• AAHPERD Youth Fitness. 1976
• Health Related Fitness, 1980
• Physical Best
• Fitness Gram
• Jump Rope for Heart
• Hoops for Heart

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Fitness Tests

• AAHPERD Youth Fitness Test (1965)
• Revised 1976
• Versions
• Pull-up
• Sit-up
• Standing broad jump
• Shuttle run
• 50 yard dash

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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

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Health Related Fitness Test

• Defined Fitness asCardiorespiratory
• Body Composition ( leanness)
• Abdominal and low back strength
• Items
• Cardiovascular
• 9 minute or 1 mile
• 1.5 mile or 12 minute

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Health Related Items

• Body Composition
• Sum of triceps subscapularis
• Abdominal Low Back
• Modified Timed Sit-up(60 seconds)
• Sit Reach

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Use of Fitness Tests

• Diagnosis strengths/ weaknesses
• Set objectives
• Program evaluation
• Demonstrate importance of program
• Motivate kids
• Improve public relations

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Overweight Obesity

• Definitions
• 10 ideal weight
• 20 ideal weight
• Video Fat Chance in a Thin World
• Set-point theory
• Madison Avenue
• Anorexia
• Bulimia

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Eating Disorders

• Definition an abnormal relationship with food.
• Anorexia
• Bulimia
• Binge eating disorder (BED)
• Compulsive over eating
• All are considered mental disorders

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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

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Bulimia

• Eat and purge
• Vomiting
• Diuretics
• Laxative abuse

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Obesity

• Baby Fat Myth