Fab Female Fitness

Why have a Fitness Assessment?

• Fitness assessments are a great way to find out your current health & fitness status. What shape are you in right now?
• Fitness assessments provide you a baseline so you know where you've started. Means you can track your physiological changes easily.
• Fitness assessments enable you to see results!
• Fitness assessments allow the personal trainer to 'get to know' you so enabling the PT to prescribe the most suitable exercise types and intensities.
• Fitness assessments enable the PT to predict likelihood of injury more effectively.
• Fitness assessments are human motivators! Know where you started, find out where you want to go, see the results with reviews and through personal self-assessment.
• Fitness assessments give you back control over your health & fitness status. If your in the know, you can do something about it!

The Health Screen includes:

• Anthropometric measurements (height, weight, hips, waist,  upper arm, chest, thighs); this measures your BMI, wasit-hip ratio, and provides an extra way of tracking your overall physiological changes such as weight loss or an increase in muscle definition.  
• Blood pressure (BP); BP provides a reading of the pressure of blood pumped around the arteries. We measure BP as an indication of good BP when it is not too high or too low. High BP is associated with an increased risk of heart disease, stroke and kidney problems. Low BP is associated with effects such as dizziness or fainting. It is rarely treated.
• Resting Heart Rate (RHR); measures how fast or slow your heart is beating. A lower RHR indicates a fitter, healthier heart!

The Fitness Tests include:

• Body composition; a measure of your body fat % using a body fat machine. 
• Basal Metabolic Rate; the measure of how many calories you need to either maintain your weight, lose weight or gain weight depending upon your goals.
• Learn more about your body type; Endomorph, Mesomorph or Ectomorph respectively.
• Cardiovascular test (3 minute Step up test); a measure of how hard your cardiovascular system (heart & lungs) can work.
• Core strength fitness test (1 minute plank test); a measure of how good your core strength is.
• Upper body strength fitness test (1 minute press-up test); this is primarily a measure of how hard your shoulders, triceps and chest can work.
• Range of movement test (sit and reach test); a measurement of how flexible your hamstrings and lower back are.

Get started yourself by calculating your own BMI and checking out your own waist circumference here!