Pick one of the physical fitness assessments mentioned in the lecture slides
Please complete the followings:
1. Pick one of the physical fitness assessments mentioned in the lecture slides (e.g., blood pressure, Vo2 test, 1-mile run test, handgrip strength test, sit-and-reach test, etc.). Then, answer following questions:
How do we conduct the fitness test (that you picked)?
What are the procedures? What equipment do we need? Please provide information in detail.
2. Find a research article that is related to obesity, and used the fitness test you picked as one of the assessments. For example, the article “Relationship of single measures of cardiorespiratory fitness and obesity in young schoolchildren” used 1-mile run test to assess cardiorespiratory fitness in young individuals with obesity. Once you found an article, answer the following questions:
- What was their rationale and purpose of the research study?
- Who were the participants?
- What/how did they measure (address the main outcome variables + the fitness test you picked)?
- What was the result for those outcome variables? What were their main findings? What was the conclusion?
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