Saturday, February 19, 2011

Fitness Test

  • The state or condition of being fit; suitability or appropriateness.
  • Good health or physical condition, especially as the result of exercise and proper nutrition.

Fitness tests, often referred to as fitness evaluations or fitness assessments, includes a series of measurements that help determine the health status and physical fitness of an individual. So how do you qualify a bodybuilder/ power lifter. Don't get confuse with fitness test only apply for runners, cyclist or endurance athlete. Fitness test can be measure in many different area :


Aerobic exercise is physical exercise that improves the body's metabolic or energy generating process. The test in these category are designed to measure aerobic capacity. 

12 Minute Run

Anaerobic exercise is used by athletes in non-endurance sports to promote strength, speed and power and by body builders to build muscle mass. Muscles trained using anaerobic exercise develop differently compared to aerobic exercise, leading to greater performance in short duration, high intensity activities, which last from mere seconds up to about 2 minutes. 
  

Agility refers to the ability of the body to rapidly and efficiently change the position and/or the direction of both body segments and the body as a whole, either whilst stationary or while moving as quickly as possible. 

Burpee

Flexibility is also important in many sports. Skills such as jumping, hurdling and those involved in racket sports all require good flexibility. Increasing one's range of movement increases the time over which force may be applied. Increased flexibility may also allow increased limb velocity and improve performance in events such as golf, throwing and racket sports.

Muscular strength is defined as the peak force or torque developed during a maximal contraction.

Muscular Endurance

Posted by Kmaru at 5:58 PM

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