Fitness Test

[wishes]

I got an email from one of the many mailing lists im on. It had the coolest fitness test.
I did it apparently im good/excellent - which is great! I would have been sooo on the opposite end at 317lb
Anyway - not to be promoting my own site or anything, but it was the best place to put it.

 

[maleficent]

odd test - the first test I do pretty well on - but i have an irregular heartbeat so I never quite get consistent results - the second test - I do the suckage on - in12 minutes I can walk a little over 3/4s of a mile which is about 1.21 km - so i rate a poor -

How freakin' depressing - i think i'm working my butt off for months and still getting no where...

 

[Kaitie]

POOR!

Mal, *slaps her back into reality* think back to the first time you started exercising, 383 pounds---I bet it was really tough (I know John can walk for 30 minutes and only do 1/2 a mile.) and now 134 pounds of you are gone forever and you're actually walking at a good enough pace to do 3/4 of a mile in 12 minutes. That is an accomplishment. You should be proud of yourself. Not to many people in this world actually lose weight---and you've done a magnificent job.

*squishy hugs* and *ducks to not get slapped back*

 

[wishes]

Try running rather than walking Mal, You may do better than you thought

Remember its in km not miles also.

 

[maleficent]

even when I was 383 lbs - i still walked 1 mile to work every day and it would take me about 25 minutes - 30 on the way home because it was up hill..

I'm not sure i'm coordinated enough to start running yet... I've barely mastered the 15 minute mile..

 

[maleficent]

odd test - the first test I do pretty well on - but i have an irregular heartbeat so I never quite get consistent results - the second test - I do the suckage on - in12 minutes I can walk a little over 3/4s of a mile which is about 1.21 km - so i rate a poor -

How freakin' depressing - i think i'm working my butt off for months and still getting no where...

Ya know - I refound this thread this morning to see if there was any difference... to maybe stroke my ego to see if I had made a difference in 7 months...

and -

NONE!

I still rate very poor... Walking outside if Im really concentrating I still can barely get a 15 minute mile

 

[iamfire1]

You know.....

Morning,

I just checked out the test (didn't take it yet) but it did highlight one particularly interesting thing to me.

Why on earth would anyone want to compare their workouts on a treadmill to someone else? After all, that "someone else" has a completely different physiological makeup, making comparisons rather, well, immaterial.

Today was my treadmill day at the gym, and I created my own challenge - 53 minutes at various speeds ranging from 3.5 to 5.0 mph (30 minutes of 3.5mph on a level 15 incline, then I backed down the height and increased the speed, and finished with a 5 minute 5mph jog). I was utterly zonked afterwards (but feeling mighty proud of myself); I don't think I'd have had the same mental enjoyment if I tried comparing my "performance" with someone in better condition than me.

'course, that being said, I always do sneak a look at the Cybex weight levels if someone does catch my attention. I recently broke 100 pounds on my lat pushups and rows, and do enjoy seeing what weights other women use.

So I suppose I don't really follow my own initial confusion at the beginning of this post.

Best wishes,

Barbara