Week 1 Surprise: Fitness Test

Week 1 starts tomorrow, and we had a fitness test that we had to do.  I did mine today and you won't believe it - I am in the intermediate category!!  Who would have thought?! I am so happy with my results - at least at this stage of the game! I thought I might have been in the beginner category.

In the 1km run, we went to the local oval, and I did it in 7 minutes 21 seconds, which is in the intermediate category.  I didnt struggle with this as much as I thought.  It was hard but it really wasn't as bad as I was dreading. I wasn't able to run the whole way, but I jogged for most of it, and only walked twice and it wasn't for long overall.

For the push up test, in 1 minute I did 23 push ups and they hurt!!!  By the end of it, I really struggled to get those last few out.  Compared with the push up test I did at the gym a few weeks ago, I did all of these at stage 2 (on my knees, but with my knees further back).  These results were also in the intermediate category, so I am happy with that.

The wall sit REALLY hurt!!  Sadly, I was only able to manage 13 seconds before my knees started to really hurt as well as my thighs.  This is something that I am hoping to improve on as the beginner category is 59 seconds or less... and I would say I failed lol!  I would like to  at least be able to be closer to the 59 second mark.

As I expected, I completely failed the abs test... I couldn't even get my wrists to knees!!! So, this is my other beginner category. But as I said, I was expecting this, and this is why it is one of my goals to build up my core muscles.  I am curious if this is one of the reasons why I couldn't lose much weight off my tummy area when I was closer to my goal weight.  I know that it isn't possible to spot reduce, but I had no 'structure' there to help with it at all.

The last test had to do with flexibility, with this I also got an intermediate level.  My measurement for this was -4cm, meaning my fingertips were 4cm from my toes when I was trying to reach for them.  People who can reach past their toes would be in the positive.  I am hoping that one day I will be flexible enough to do this.

Overall, I did much better than I was expecting, and I am quite happy with the results.  I really do want to work on my core muscles, I need to learn to stop ignoring them.  We have Your Shape Fitness Eveloved for the Xbox as well as the EA Sports Active 2.  I am hoping that I will be able to put together a core workout together on these to help me out.

One other thing I loved about doing this fitness test was how involved my partner was in it all.  It was great to see him take an interest in it and wanting to see how he faired with the tests as well.  He even took the pics of me running lol! Hope u like them haha!