Fitness, don’t forget it is more than just exercising. It is not just a combination of your weight control, endurance, strength, fat and calorie content and more.
Cardio-respiratory endurance is the body’s ability, over sustained periods of physical activity You can do long swims and runs to assess your cardio-respiratory stamina, The longer you can go without feeling strain the more fit it indicates.
Muscular fortitude, the ability of a muscle, or a group of muscles, to keep up repeated contractions or to continue applying force against a immobile object. more push-ups you can do, the fitter you are.
Muscle strength is the muscle’s ability to exert force for a brief span of time. You can measure physical fitness components, like this, by lifting weights.
The flexibility of the lower back also is a good aid in judging fitness, the ability to move joints and use muscles through their full range of motion is usually determined by performing simple motions to test the distance you can bend that muscle group. Flexibility can be tested with sit-and-reach or many yoga exercises involving the fluid bending of the body, particularly spine.
BMI was also classically considered a means of measuring fitness however many factors can skew the results. Body composition can be measured with the Body Mass Index or BMI chart. This method does not literally measure the percentage of body fat instead it is used to guess a healthy body weight factoring a subjects height. The BMI Is calculated as weight divided by the square of one’s height. Recent research has shown that this is not a good method when estimating the elderly, who tend to have less defined muscles or the bodybuilder who have an abundance of muscle. Instead scientists now recommend using the hips to waist ratio of no more than 0.8 for women and 0.95 for men.
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