Oregon Fitness

 OREGON MOTOR FITNESS TEST (ORPAT has been in use since July 1, 2007)

The Oregon Physical Abilities Test (ORPAT) is a hybrid physical ability-job sample physical ability assessment process designed to evaluate entry level police officer candidates on the essential physical capacities required to satisfactory perform their job duties. ORPAT was originally based on data taken from the Canadian RCMP PARE research and tests as well as multiple Job Task Analysis (JTA’s) for the Oregon police, and corrections officers.

ORPAT was designed to replicate critical and essential physical tasks and demands faced by police officers in the normal performance of their duties. Both specific tasks and overall physical demands are replicated in the ORPAT through the use of a carefully designed and validated, times “obstacle course.”

1.  Boy’s batteries:

Upper elementary school

A.  Standing broad jump

B.  Floor push-ups

C.  Knee touch sit-ups

Junior and senior high school

1.          Pull-ups

2.          Jump and reach.

3.          160-yard potato race

2.  Girl’s batteries (test items at all schools’ levels)

     I.               Hanging in arm-flexed position

   II.                Standing broad dump

 III.                Crossed arm curl-ups.

UPPER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

1)  Standing Broad Jump:

        Objects: To measure the athletic power legs in jumping forward.

        Age level: Age ten though eighteen years

        Sex: Satisfactory for both boys and girls.

Equipment & material:

Either a mat or floor may be used for this test marking material tape or chalk is needed for the starting line along with a tape measure to mark off increment of distance along the spending area.

Direction:

With the feet parallel to each other and behind the starting mark the perfumed bends the knees and swings the arms and jumps as for forward as possible.

Scoring:

The number of inches between the subjecting line and nearest upon landing is the score three trials are permitted, and then the best trial is recorded as the score.

2)  Push-Ups

        Objectives: To measure the endurance of the arms and shoulder girls.

        Age& level: Age ten though college.

        Sex: Satisfactory for boys only.

        Equipment: Horizontal bar mat the floor and some chalk.

 

Direction:

A straight on the floor and best position the performer lowers the body until the chest touches so mat push pin upward to the straight are support one exercise is continued for many repetitions as possible without most the body must not say nor are ground but maintain a straight line throughout line exercise.

Scoring:

The score is the number of correct push-ups executed the score is ruminate noted of the performer steps to rest. If the chest loses not touch of if the arms are not completely extended on an exaction the total does not count.

3)  Knee-Touch Sit-ups

        Objective: The efficiency of the abdominal and his flexion muscles.

        Age level: Age ten though college level.

        Sex: Satisfactory the boys and girls

Directions:

The subject line on his back with his boys one straight and about the feet apart. His hands are placed beyond his neck with the fingers interspaced. A partner helps the subject sit-up twisting his trunk to the left to touch his right elbow to the knee. He then he then turns to back starting position. He became to touch the left elbow to the right knee. He touches the one time one point.

Scoring:

Each movement of sitting up touching to knee and returning to the mat counts one point the maximum number of sit-ups 100 for boys, and 50 for girls.

JUNIOR AND SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

1)  Pull-Ups-Test

        Objective: To measure the muscular of the arms and shoulder girdle in pulling, the body upward.

        Age level:  Ages ten through college.

        Sex: Boys only

Equipment:

The equipment needed is a horizontal bar raised to a height so that the tallest performer cannot touch the ground from the hanging position.

Directions:

The bar should be located high enough so that feet of the tallest boy do not touch the floor when performing the test. In taking the pull-up test the subject hangs from the bar by his rends with forward hand grip and chins himself pull himself up until him chin is given with his hands then lower the body until his arms are straight, he should mat kick or use a lip motion.

 

Scoring:

The score is the number or completed pull-ups counts are recorded if the subject does not pull all the way up if he does not straighten his arm completely when lowering the body of if he kills jerks, or hip in performing the movement, only for help count are permitted.

2)  Jump and Reach Test

        Objective: To measure the power of the boys in jumping virtually upward.

        Age level: Satisfactory for ages nice through adulteries.

        Sex: For both boys and girls

Equipment:

A yardstick several successes of chalk and a smooth wall surface of at least is 12 feet from the floor as high as 73.

Direction:

The performer should stand with one side toward a well kneels together and hold at a are inch piece of chalk in the hand, nearest to the wall, keeping the heals are the floor. He should reach upward as high as possible and mark on the wall. The performance then lamps as high as possible and makers another mark of the height or his lump.

Scoring:

The number of inches between such and the jump marks measured to the nearest half of an inch in the score three to five trials are allowed and the best trail is recorded as the score.

3)  160 Yard Potato Race

        Objective: To measure agility, change of direction

        Age level: Ages ten through colleges

        Sex: Boys

Equipment and material:

Three circles, each one foot in diameter, are drawn on the floor in a line with each other. Circle 1 is behind and tangent to a starting line. The center of circle 2 is 50 feet from the starting line, and circle 3 is 70 feet from the starting line.

Direction:

One 2-by-4-inch block, or blackboard eraser, is placed in circle 2, and a second one is placed in circle 3. From a standing start, the subject (a) runs to circle 2, picks up the block, returns to circle 1 and places it in the circle; (b) he then runs to circle 3, picks up the block and carries it to circle 1; (c) he immediately picks up the first block, carries it back to circle 2; (d)he then returns to circle 1,picks up the second block and carries it to circle 3; (e) finally, he races back across the starting line. The blocks must be placed, not dropped or thrown, in the proper circle each time.

Scoring:

The score is elapsed time from starting point to the finishing point in seconds one or two trials are given best timing is taken.

GIRLS BATTERIES

I.    Hanging arm-flexed position

        Objective: To measure the endurance of the arms and shoulder girls in the flexed arm hang position

        Age level: Ages ten through college

        Sex: This test is presented for girls only.

Equipment:

The equipment needed is a horizontal bar 1/3 inches in diameter raised to a height so that the tallest girl cannot touch the ground from the flexed arm hang position its standard equipment is not available a piece of place or a doorway gm can be used a stopwatch in also needed for testing.

Directions:

With on overhand f\gross and the assistance of two captors, the performance should raise the body off the floor so that the chin is above the bars and the elbow are flexed. The performer should hold this position for as long as possible.

Scoring:

The number of seconds to the nearest second that the performer maintains the proper maintains the proper position is recorded as the score.

 

II.Standing Broad Jump

        Objective: To measure the athletic power of the leg in jumping forward.

        Age level: Age the through eighteen years.

        Sex: Satisfactory for both and boys & girls

Equipment:

Either a mat of floor may be used for this test marking material change or chalk needed for the starting line along with a tape measure to mark off increment of distance along the standing are.

Direction:

With the test parallel to other and behind the starting mark the performer bends the knees and swings the arms and jumps as forward as possible:

Scoring:

The number of inches between the starting line and the nearest heat upon landing is the score three trails are permitted and then test total is recorded the score.

 

III.            Crossed – arm curl – ups.

The subject assumes a lying position on her back with knees bent at approximately a right angle, soles of the feet flat on the floor, hip width apart; the arms are folded and held against the chest. The girl’s feet should be held down firmly by a partner. The test consists of raising the trunk to an erect sitting position and returning to a back-lying position as many times as possible. The feet must remain on the floor throughout the test; the elbows must be kept down, and the arms not used to help the body sit up; bouncing from the floor is not permissible; resting during any phase of the performance is not allowed. The score is the number of times the girl raises herself correctly to a sitting position.