The FitnessGram Pacer Test - Army PRT (2024)

The FitnessGram Pacer Test is a multiple-stage aerobic fitness test that gets progressively harder as it goes on.

The FitnessGram Pacer Test also measures a student’s aerobic capacity and endurance. If you know the Pacer Test by heart, you are in the right place today.

I will give you a quick look into how I explain the Pacer test and give you just a few ideas about the Pacer test. When doing fitness testing, ensuring you’re not doing it for a grade is important; we should not be grading our students on their fitness scores.

Presentation and how you sell it have a big part in your kid’s motivation to do the Pacer test and the curl test with push-up tests, especially for kids who know they will not be at the top of the class.

You still want them to do their best so they can learn to set goals, improve themselves, and become better versions of themselves. So, the more you can encourage kids to do that, and the more you can encourage kids to improve, the more wins you’ll have with FitnessGram and fitness testing.

There are a lot of opinions and a lot of ideas out there that are great ideas. A few that I have done in the past are doing a partner pacer as a warm-up type thing so that kids can hear the CD more, and the more they hear, the more familiar they will be with it, and the better they’re going to do on the test.

It works so that you can do either 15 or 20 meters, depending on how much space you have. So you have a partner for the Pacer; one person goes and does a lap, comes back, and tags the other person’s hand.

Then the next person goes, so they are trading off and not getting as tired; they’re able to run more laps, and then you also have that teamwork aspect of it; if one person runs 60 meters and another person runs 30 meters, the one running 60 meters can take two turns in a row and give their partner a break.

So, it’s cool to watch the kids’ dynamics when you do that partner pacer and see which kids can say, “Hey, I’ll run two more for you, like take a break,” and talking about that teamwork aspect beforehand is important.

Suppose you have a lot of kids in a big space. Try a“trio pacer,”where you have one kid on one end of the gym and two on the other. Then on the line with two kids, that’s the starting line, so when the CD starts, one of those kids will run down and tag the next person across from them; that person will then run down and tag the other, that way they’re doing a triple tag situation, so they are not running as much but running more often.

So if you have a lot of kids, try that to give those kids a chance to see the pace, to hear the CD, and to get used to the Biebs.

You can also do a modified pacer with kindergarten or first graders if interested. They run sideline to sideline, so it’s much shorter; you can do 25 to 30 laps just for the kids to hear it. Then, you can sell it to them as a video game to see if they can make it to 30 points or however many points you want.

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