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Fitness Assessments:
What are the components and what do they mean?
- Resting Heart Rate (RHR) - The number of heart beats per minute when the body is at rest. Best measured in
the morning when a person first wakes up. The lower your RHR, the better.
- Target Heart Rate Zone (THRZ) - The range of heart beats per minute, at which you maintain a certain
intensity during training.
- Blood Pressure - A reading of the Systolic and Diastolic Pressure exerted by the blood upon the blood
vessels. The Systolic is the amount of pressure during a heart beat, and Diastolic measures the amount of
pressure between heart beats.
- Body Mass Index - A calculation between a persons height and weight. Often used to quantify obesity and
relative risk for heart disease.
- Body Composition or Body Fat Percentage (BF%) - The relative amount of fat mass and lean body mass that
make up the total body weight.
- Flexibility - The joints ability to move through a full range of motion without pain. Often measured through a sit
and reach test.
- Muscular Endurance - The muscles' ability to sustain muscular contractions or apply sub-maximal force over a
period of time. Often measured through a push-up test for men, and a modified push-up test for women.
push-ups.
- VO2 max - The amount of oxygen that can be utilized by the muscles during maximal exercise. Measured
through a variety of formats, the more often used sub-maximal test is the 3 minute step test.
(Men) under 88 beats per minute / (Women) under 90 beats per minute.
