BPK 142 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Grip Strength, Independent Community And Health Concern
27 Apr 2018
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Unit 10: The Measurement of Muscular Strength
1. Critique the grip strength test. Do you think that the correlation between grip strength
and overall body strength would be very high? Explain.
-not a good indicator of overall strength unless subject is a well rounded athlete
- we increase our grip strength everyday without even knowing it. a well rounded athlete has
equal muscular strength everywhere on body
Correlation b/w grip strength and overall body strength not high as one area of the body may
have a completely different strength. Only 1 measure of strength.
than another depending on the amount of use/training that the muscle has been subject
to
2. In comparison to CSEP-PATH norms, BPK students tend to have lower ratings on
average for combined grip strength. Why?
- less exercise due to school
Unit 11: The Measurement of Muscular Power
1. What is the vertical jump a test of? What factors can affect the distance jumped?
- Test of muscular power (specifically lower body)
- Affects?
- The amount of flexion performed at the knee joint
- The amount of trunk flexion performed
- How fatigued the subject is
- Lack of warm up
- muscle strength in legs, mass
- genetics (tendon length, bone structure, etc)
- jumping form
2. Differentiate between strength, power, and muscular endurance. Give an example of a
test that was used in BPK 142 for measuring each of these factors.
- Strength
- Greatest amount of force that a muscle can produce during single maximum effort
- Ex. grip strength/knee & hip extensions/upright rowing
- Power
- Ability to produce max force in shortest time possible
- Ex. vertical jump
- Muscular endurance
- Ability of same muscle group to make repeated contractions
- Ex. push ups, partial curl ups, back extension
Document Summary
Unit 10: the measurement of muscular strength: critique the grip strength test. Not a good indicator of overall strength unless subject is a well rounded athlete. We increase our grip strength everyday without even knowing it. a well rounded athlete has equal muscular strength everywhere on body. Correlation b/w grip strength and overall body strength not high as one area of the body may have a completely different strength. Only 1 measure of strength. than another depending on the amount of use/training that the muscle has been subject to: in comparison to csep-path norms, bpk students tend to have lower ratings on average for combined grip strength. Test of muscular power (specifically lower body) The amount of flexion performed at the knee joint. Jumping form: differentiate between strength, power, and muscular endurance. Give an example of a test that was used in bpk 142 for measuring each of these factors.
