Determining your level of fitness

Fitness is individual. A person knows that he is or is not in shape. He also knows the various degrees of his own fitness. Or he can define his fitness in terms of others of similar age and state of health. He may be proud that he is the only fellow on the block who can go out bicycling for the afternoon, climb three flights of stairs without panting, and shovel his own driveway. And by this comparison he knows if he enjoys normal fitness, which is indeed rare, or only average fitness.

There is a tendency to be too scientifically sophisticated in appraisals of fitness for people after college years. Why make things overly difficult? Either you are in good shape-for you-or you are not. That is easy for you to decide.

Your own base line or yardstick is you at this moment. From now on you improve, you deteriorate, or you hold the line. This is where you start. And a medically sound beginning it is. Consciously or unconsciously each sportsman has devised his own fitness testing. It may be formal (one more push-up, lopping two seconds off his hundred-yard swimming time, or returning to normal pulse less than three minutes after exercise) or informal (”it sure was easier to climb Mount Yahoo this year!”)-but it is there. Read the rest of this entry »

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