Fitness tests could become redundant in the future, since there is going to be a real time value for each and every athlete at any time with the touch of a button.
What is the purpose of fitness testing? To identify strengths and weaknesses of individual athletes. This is done by comparing the fitness test results of athletes in the same training group, the same sport or skill, or in a similar population. Even though each athlete is different, the testing score helps in identifying strengths and weaknesses and in resolving the latter. This helps in the monitoring progress and assists in improving performance through specific training modules.
Fitness tests applied to champion sportspersons give the best results in the case of athletes who are in continued training with proper protocols designed.
In the past few years, there has been a huge outlook change in the way we play and watch sports as a result of a major eruption in scientific and technological advances in materials, training, injury management, nutrition, sports science and sports medicine, among other things.
Examples of such innovations are aerodynamic racing cars, streamlined swimsuits and bicycle designs, biomechanical analysis in various fields, energy-conserving sports shoes, genetic profiling, Dexa scans, specialised diets and drugs for performance enhancement, recovery mechanisms for athletes, load management software, GPS tracking devices, tactical and technical video replays and planning, movement-tracking software for varied sports and many more.
With sports changing multidimensionally, it is imperative that there will be significant advances in the field of fitness testing for sports, though these appear to be lagging behind in many ways still. Nowadays the majority of fitness tests used are not very different from 10 or 25 years ago. We still commonly use the Illinois agility test, beep/Yo-Yo runs, sit-and-reach flexibility, push-ups and strength tests.
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