Assessment of some aspects of physical fitness.

Fitness assessment protocols are continually being modified to satisfy current needs of both athletic and non-athletic groups. Laboratory facilities for assessing aerobic fitness have become highly sophisticated with exercise test modalities matched as closely as possible to specific sports. Similar developments have applied to tests of anaerobic power. Among non-athletic populations there is a demand for indirect methods of assessing work capacity by means of submaximal responses and field tests. Such test are now available for use with subjects varying in age, sex, level of fitness and training status. Physical fitness is a multivariate concept and consequently is not amenable to characterisation in a single fitness test.

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