Physical Capacity Tests: Notes on Testing Techniques and the Significance of Tests

viii, 50 pp. "ACCURACY IN TESTING TECHNIQUES: Preface; General Suggestions; Specific procedures: Spirometer tests, Manuometer tests, Back and leg dynamometer tests, Push-up tests (boys), Pull-up tests (boys); Push-up tests (girls), Pull-up tests (girls); THE SIGNIFICANCE OF PHYSICAL CAPACITY TESTS: As measures of the physical educator's tools; As measures of physical fitness; As measures of physical activity habits; As measures of endurance; As indices of general systemic condition; As measures of power to carry academic burdens; As measures of individual progress and educational efficiency; As measures of unstable conditions; Cautions; SUPPLEMENT: Supplementary materials; Supplementary instructions, and norm charts; Some Average Scores; Facsimiles of norm charts and record cards."