Feasibility, safety and responsiveness of health-related field-based physical fitness tests in adults: the adult-fit project
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description: Physical fitness is recognised as an important indicator of health in all age groups, such as children, adolescents, adults and the elderly. Research has indicated an inverse relation between cardiorespiratory, muscular fitness and motor fitness, whith various diseases, morbidity and all-cause mortality. Therefore, the assessment of physical fitness is of substantial value as a means of prevention and identification. Although laboratory tests are accurate reference points for measuring fitness, their feasibility is restricted due to high costs, complexity of equipment, need for skilled personnel and time constraints, especially in studies of larger populations. Conducting field-based physical fitness tests offers a practical substitute, as these tests are simple to administer, require minimal equipment, are cost-effective and allow the assessment of numerous participants in a relatively short-term and simultaneous period of time. It is crucial that any assessment tool maintains qualities such as validity, reliability, feasibility, safety and responsiveness. Recent studies have added some of these qualities to existing health-related fitness field test batteries for preschoolers (PREFIT study) and children and adolescents (ALPHA study). However, there is no evidence-based field test battery that assesses physical fitness in adults. It is possible to find studies that include some of the mentioned qualities in various field tests, but not a complete battery. This background exposes the need to propose a valid, reliable, feasible, safe and responsive health-related field-based physical fitness test battery in adults to be used in a consensual way. This is how the proposal for the ADULT-FIT Project [Plan nacional I+D +i 2017-2020, (ref.: DEP2017-88043-R)] was born, whose general aim was: to propose a field-based test battery to assess health-related physical fitness in adults based on scientific evidence, valid, reliable, feasible, safe and responsive, according to sex,…
abstract: Physical fitness is recognised as an important indicator of health in all age groups, such as children, adolescents, adults and the elderly. Research has indicated an inverse relation between cardiorespiratory, muscular fitness and motor fitness, whith various diseases, morbidity and all-cause mortality. Therefore, the assessment of physical fitness is of substantial value as a means of prevention and identification. Although laboratory tests are accurate reference points for measuring fitness, their feasibility is restricted due to high costs, complexity of equipment, need for skilled personnel and time constraints, especially in studies of larger populations. Conducting field-based physical fitness tests offers a practical substitute, as these tests are simple to administer, require minimal equipment, are cost-effective and allow the assessment of numerous participants in a relatively short-term and simultaneous period of time. It is crucial that any assessment tool maintains qualities such as validity, reliability, feasibility, safety and responsiveness. Recent studies have added some of these qualities to existing health-related fitness field test batteries for preschoolers (PREFIT study) and children and adolescents (ALPHA study). However, there is no evidence-based field test battery that assesses physical fitness in adults. It is possible to find studies that include some of the mentioned qualities in various field tests, but not a complete battery. This background exposes the need to propose a valid, reliable, feasible, safe and responsive health-related field-based physical fitness test battery in adults to be used in a consensual way. This is how the proposal for the ADULT-FIT Project [Plan nacional I+D +i 2017-2020, (ref.: DEP2017-88043-R)] was born, whose general aim was: to propose a field-based test battery to assess health-related physical fitness in adults based on scientific evidence, valid, reliable, feasible, safe and responsive, according to sex,…
author: Cruz León, Carolina Vaeny
language: eng
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date published: 2024-05-24
date modified: 2026-07-24T01:29:38Z
provider: Universidad de Cadiz
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
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source organization: Universidad de Cadiz

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