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- An effective training program just for you: We determine your personal fitness level and develop a fitness program to suit your specific needs.
- Improve your endurance: Learn how to set a benchmark for improvement with regards to your health goals.
- Achieve your target weight goal: We assess goals for weight gain or weight loss and help devise a good plan to achieve them.
- Improve your cardiovascular: Establish a high level of cardiovascular fitness and better understand your limitations.
- Improve flexibility: Get a better sense of balance and flexibility.
- Improve self image: Enhance your over all feeling of well being and self esteem.
Generally speaking, during a fitness evaluation we carefully measure your muscular strength, cardiovascular strength, body fat percentage, coordination, and flexibility.
These areas are measured with the help of best practice standard tests that can accurately determine the physical health of an individual.
Through our fitness evaluation program, we are able to accurately assess your fitness level. The results of our fitness program can yield significant health benefits.
Fitness evaluation tests can also measure your capability to do specific physical tasks, as well as help you better understand how to perform tasks that you may find demanding.
Muscular strength is only one aspect of physical fitness evaluation. There are many aspects involved in good physical health, which are ascertained by a professional fitness evaluation.
The Department of Sports Science and Physical Education, Faculty, The Chinese University of Hong Kong have conducted an assessment of specific exercises on boosting cardiovascular health and metabolic rate in primary and secondary students, confirming the importance of proper fitness.
In the media, news of an increasing rate of childhood obesity is becoming a global concern. Fitness evaluation of students is considered one way to address this health problem.
Fitness evaluation tests are baselines that refer to the progress of your health. A well designed fitness evaluation program will determine your strengths and weaknesses to identify which kinds of exercise programs will work best for you. A proper workout program based on fitness evaluation can enhance your endurance and make you more physically capable to handle daily tasks.
Fitness evalutation programs help test your physical strengths, stamina, endurance levels and provides feedback in areas that need to be improved. Your real fitness levels are measured, evaluated and shown by fitness evaluation tests. Any kind of sweeping generalizations are eliminated.
1. What tests included in fitness evaluation? The fitness tests include body composition testing to find out body fat percentage by specialized methods. There are tests to assess aerobic and anaerobic activity and tests to measure flexibility, coordination and cardiovascular fitness.
2. How can you define fitness level? A fitness level means the capacity of our body to withstand a workload and to recover in a timely manner. There are people who can run miles and there are people who gasp for breath in five minutes. The difference in these people is in their ‘fitness levels’.
3. Is push up a fitness level test? Yes, push up is the world’s most common exercise and a fitness level test practiced for a long time.
4. What is Vo2 Max Test? Vo2 Max Test calculates the amount of oxygen that our body consumes at the peak of our exercising. This is a world renowned exercise practiced by trainers, sportspeople and instructors. The best place to do this fitness test is on a measured track of treadmill. The mean value of Vo2max for male athletes is around 3.5 liters per minute and for female athletes it is about 2.7 liters per minute.
5. What does body composition mean? Body composition means different components like muscles, bones, and fat that makes a person’s body weight. Some of the common methods to measure body composition and body weight is Body Mass Index (BMI), Waist to Hip Ratio, Hydrostatic Weighing, Skinfold measurement, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Total Body Protein(TBP) etc.
There are no major warnings.
However, it is advisable that your physician clears you to participate in this program, before any testing can be done.
Top 5 reasons to consider fitness evaluation
1. Good foundation for training programs: PT Health offered fitness evaluation tests are often the starting point of designing a customized and appropriate exercise program. These tests are often dependant on the fitness goals of the individual and the workouts that are being performed.
2. Improved endurance programs: Muscular endurance is the length of time a muscle group can resist pressure and contract before it tires. Muscular strength testing is done to find the maximum amount of force a particular muscle group can apply at one time. Any specific muscle’s imbalance or weakness can be found out by endurance tests of fitness evaluation programs.
3. Helpful in achieving weight goals: Fitness evaluation can assess our goals for weight gain or weight loss and help devise a good plan to reach our goals. Body fat levels and body composition are measured by Body Mass Index (BMI), Skin Fold Measurements, and Waist to Hip Ratio Measurements, Body Fat Analyzers and Scales etc.
4. Cardiovascular assessment: Cardiovascular tests can make our hearts and lungs function efficiently to supply oxygen and power to the body during physical activity. Common methods for cardiovascular assessment include Vo2 Max Testing, 12 Minute Run Test, and Exercise Stress Testing.
5. Improved flexibility: We will be more energetic, have good sense of balance and flexibility. The flexibility testing particularly measures the flexibility of our body and the motion in certain joints of our body.
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