Why the phrase, “fitness testing is a waste of time. Everyone at our club knows not to try as hard in the first lot of test and in the second lot everyone will improve. Everyone’s happy!” is an inherently negative mindset: This impacts training programs greatly. This mindset tries to prove that “cheating” the program will prove positive, however this is not the case. I say its cheating the program because that is essentially what its attempting to do. If a group of people do this, they wont train as hard, and will be placed into lower groups of work and training, and will not train to the best of their abilities. This is problematic for when the second round of testing comes about, because they will not be performing at their highest standard.