How do you measure fitness? January 14, 2008
Posted by hardly 6 Minutes of..., Bar, Kettlebell, Pushups, Sit-ups, Tabata
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One of the threads through my various careers, hobbies, and other activities is measurement of results. With regard to fitness, there are a number of ways to measure it, and sometimes the easiest measure is the simple rep count. How many of X did you do then, and how many can you do now?
Warm-up:
- 30 American Swings @ 20 kg kettlebell
- 2x 12 reps of Push-Presses w/a 20 kg kettlebell (1 set per arm)
Workout:
- Tabata Squats: 21 (PB!)
- 2x 20 kettebell cleans @ 24 kg
- 40 Russian Swings @ 24 kg kettlebell
- 2x 15 Russian Swings @ 28 kg kettlebell
- 6 minutes of situps: 213 (PB!!!)
- Deadlifts @ 155 lbs:
- 2x of 6 reps
- 2x of 5 reps
- 2x of 4 reps
- 6 minutes of pushups: 137 (pb tie)
Today was the first day of a new 6-week session, and we did a number of bench-marks. I’d say that my last session improved my abilities because my rep counts moved up, or were equal to my last efforts. And that sit-up number was a significant improvement, so I’m pumped!
BTW, one of my comrades did 276 sit-ups is 6 minutes today. I’m suspecting that animal sacrifice was involved, ’cause that’s just about inhuman… 
Workout:
- Type: Other
- Date: 01/14/2008
- Time: 09:20:00
- Total Time: 1:08:32.00
- Average Heart rate: 145
- Max Heart rate: 180
Comments
274 in 6 minutes? Is s/he a terminator?
Geez man. 274, that’s incredible. Testing days are so much fun though. It’s exciting when you see improvement. Congratulations!
We used to do the Presidential Physical Fitness Challenge at BPC.
1 min sit ups
As many pushups as you can do
As many pullups as you can do
Shuttle run
1.5 mile run
You compete with others in your age group and gender. The score’s were excellent, good, fair, poor. I was top in the 1.5 mile run and pullups and pushups for my age group. The trainers started training in January for the President’s Day Challenge.
re: terminator
No, but she looks a lot like Sarah Connor in T2. Seriously!
re: Presidential PT Challenge
BTW, that looks like fun!
You were in the top? So surprising!
I just made a slight correction to my main post. ‘Sarah Connor’ informed me that she didn’t achieve 274 sit-ups in 6 minutes.
It was 276.
Dang. Even more amazing!