Top 10 DIY ways to test your fitness
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Measuring your fitness isn’t just about feeling how tight your abs are or seeing what time you get in a 10k run. There are also some less obvious ways to find out what kind of exercise shape you are in – which can be used to assess a number of aspects of your fitness. Here's the realbuzz.com guide to testing out your current fitness level, and how to improve it.
The results classifications (excellent, good, poor and so on) given for each of the tests/exercises are based on the average scores of healthy adults. Make sure you don’t get too hung up about where you fall in the good, excellent or poor stakes, though ... Instead, just see your result as a guideline figure from which to improve on.
Here are realbuzz.com’s top 10 do it yourself ways of assessing your current fitness levels – which cover the following aspects of your fitness:
Note that a different set of results will sometimes also be given for each sex.
- Resting heart rate – to assess aerobic fitness
- Push-ups – to assess upper-body muscular endurance
- Head turning – to assess neck flexibility
- 12-minute walk/run test – to assess cardiovascular capacity
- Plank – to assess core stability
- Loop-the-loop – to assess shoulder mobility
- Wet footprint test – to assess foot strike pattern in running
- Vertical jump – to assess explosive power
- Waist-to-hip ratio – to assess body fat distribution
- Wall sit – to assess leg strength/endurance
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