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Session 641:

10 Simple Youth Fitness Assessment

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Brett Klika CSCSSPIDERfit Kids

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What You’ll Be Able to Do Monday

1. Target and assess essential components of the 3 primary building blocks of youth physical literacy.

2. Create effective programming for all levels of ability.



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In the Beginning…

Kids moved all the time, so we wanted to know, “How much can they move?”

Assessments based on quantitative, comparative measures.



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Updated Approach

Children don’t move much, so “Can they move?”

Assessments target qualitative aspects of movement.

What is important in our current state of youth inactivity?



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3 Building Blocks to Physical Literacy



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Assessment/Screening of the 3 Building Blocks

Primarily a screenScreen using specific and general criteria for each of

the building blocks based on age/developmental levelScreening info provides guidance for programming



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Age vs. Developmental Level

Age tends to be a governing criteria, but…



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Types of Screening and Assessment

1. Diagnostic: What can/can’t they do?

2. Formative: Observed at points in a training program.



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Simple Screening Rubric

1-4 Qualitative Scale1- Complete lack of ability at the most fundamental level of activity. Possible pathology.

“I’m concerned.”

2- Consistently incompetent in movement execution but has grasp of the fundamental concepts.

“We need to work on this.”

3- Inconsistently competent in movement execution but displays competence with the fundamental concepts.

“Looks pretty good. Keep practicing.”

4- Consistently competent in movement execution and displays mastery of the fundamental concepts.

“We need to make this more challenging”.



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Screening Sensory Awareness

• Sensory awareness begins at birth and continues throughout life.

• Screen primarily for children age 5-7, but…

• Can begin formatively with games, activities.



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Temporal awareness (Formative)

Beat Syncopation



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Vestibular Awareness

(Diagnostic)

Head rockers



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Visual Awareness (Diagnostic)

Partner pursuits



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Proprioceptive Awareness (Diagnostic)

Limb mirror test

Lower body direction test



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Screening the Fundamental Movement Skills

1. 4-Point Crawl

2. Skip

3. Wall Squat

4. No-Hand Get-Up



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Forward/backward 4-point crawl

1-Pain or inability to initiate

2-Inability to create a contralateral movement pattern, create appropriate correction, or support bodyweight for duration of drill.

3-Able to complete drill supporting bodyweight, more time spent in correct contralateral movement pattern than not.

4- Able to achieve criteria for a 3 with no correction necessary while hips remain parallel to ground



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Forward/Backward Skip1- Pain or inability to initiate2- Inability to create or provide correction to create a contralateral movement pattern. More time spent in incorrect pattern than correct pattern.3- Able to complete movement with more time spent in the appropriate contralateral movement pattern than not.4- Able to achieve criteria for a 3 with ankles over knees, spine straight with advanced cadence and force production.



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Wall Squat (3 attempts, 2 inches from wall)1-Pain or inability to initiate2-Inability to break 90 degrees of knee flexion without heels coming off of floor or neck/spine deviating.3-Able to achieve at least 90 degrees of knee flexion without heels coming off of ground or neck/spine deviating.4- Able to touch floor without heels coming off of ground or neck/spine deviating



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No-hand get up

1- Unable to get off of ground without assistance.

2- Unable to get off ground without assistance from 1 or 2 hands.

3- Able to get off ground without hands, using counter movement or non-fluid movement.

4- Able to get off ground without using hands without counter movement using fluid movement.



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Screening Applied Movement Skills

Becomes more of an assessment at this point

“How… (far, fast, much force, etc.)”

General (speed, power, etc.)

Specific (fundamentals of an activity)



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Screening Applied Movement Skills

• 20-yard deceleration

• 1 vs. 3-jump distance



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Screening Drives Programming

1- Outsource, regress, target and prioritize program daily, discussion with parent, provide at-home

work.

2- Practice fundamental level of activity, program daily, provide at-home work.

3- Program skill weekly.

4- Program the skill monthly, or progress weekly.



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Now, Get Out There And…

Build fitness and physical literacy block by block.

Screen QUALITY of movement- “Can they move?”

Screening drives programming, then screen some more! “Let’s keep them moving!”



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Thank You!

Brett KlikaSPIDERfit Kidswww.spiderfitkids.comSpiderfit kids on Facebook!


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