Sport Search II discusses the factors that are important in determining if you can become a successful elite athlete. It looks at body measures such as height and weight and the significant role that they play in determining success in some sports. Typical fitness values among successful elite performers are evaluated and compared across a range of sports. Students are encouraged to determine sports most suited to their physical and physiological make-up and to consider if they have the potential to be successful at the elite level.
The extension section discusses changes in athlete profiles. It reviews how athletes have changed over the last century. Examples are presented showing how performances have changed through both physical improvements and technological developments. Typical training-induced responses are presented for each of the fitness components with guidelines to assist students to predict their future changes.
Topics Covered:
1. Can you be a successful elite athlete? 2. Fitness 3. Physical and physiological measures . Height and weight . Strength . Speed . Aerobic endurance . Power 4. The importance of difference fitness components to success in sport 5. Other factors influencing success . Skill . Psychology . Funding 6. The basic principles of fitness testing . Grip dynamometer test . 50 m sprint test . Beep-test . Vertical jump test 7. Predicting potential athletes . Sport ranking 8. Do you have the potential to be an elite athlete?
Included on the CD is a computer-based interactive learning tool along with a PowerPoint presentation and an e-book (64 pages) containing:
· Ready-to-use worksheets · Practical activities · Laboratory-style investigations · Factual information · Questions and answers
2. The following sample allows you to review a flash (swf) version of the PowerPoint presentation for this unit. You can click on thumbnails (or the timeline) to scroll through the presentation and clicking the notes tab will display a particular slide's notes. Use the view control (bottom right corner) to flip between views...
Software Tool - Further Details...
Sport Search II includes an interactive computer-based learning tool that searches for sports based on six variables: height, weight, strength, speed, endurance and power.
The first screen is titled the 'Elite Performer'. The tool allows students to discover typical fitness levels and the height and weight of elite male and female athlete in 129 sports. The tool can be used to perform the following. · Find sports most suited to and least suited to the combination of body measures (height and weight) and fitness components (strength, speed, aerobic fitness and power) entered on the tool. · Select a sport to see the body measures and fitness components required to be successful in that sport at the elite level. · Manipulate the body measures and fitness components on the tool to see how this changes the most suitable and least suitable sports.
The second screen is titled 'Student Performer'. Students perform fitness tests to determine sports that they are most suited to. The data used in Sport Search is based on published reports on the best athletes in the world. These are generally adults competing in open events. As students are yet to reach adult size an additional function of the tool is to allow students to predict changes to their height, weight and fitness levels to identify potential sports for the future. This takes into consideration changes due to both growth and training.
This part of the tool can be used to examine the following ideas. · Identify the sports currently suited to personal body measures (height and weight) and fitness components (strength, speed, aerobic fitness and power) · Predict changes to body measures and fitness components to identify potential sports. · Predict changes to find a sport that you are most suited to and least suited to at the elite level based on adult values · Rank the sport group that you are most suited to. Groups include power, endurance, strength, speed, game or skill sports.
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