Men’s Health Fitness Test

For Christmas Amber gets me a magazine subscription, this year it was Men’s Health.  In the November issue the magazine they outline seven tests for being fit, and they claim Men’s health fit is the pinnacle of fitness, or health or whatever.

So, here’s the tests:

Standing long jump

Men’s Health Fit: 8 feet or more – Check, just barely though
Above Average: 6-8 feet
Ordinary: Less than 6 feet

Squat, curl and and push press 20 times (with 30% of body weight in hand)

MHF: 20 in a minute – Check, 23
AA: 18
O:16

Perform One Controlled Wall Squat

MHF: One fully controlled all the way down squat – Check, easy
AA: Halfway
O: Less than half way

Score Level 12 on the beep test

MHF: level 12 or more
AA: level 11
O: level 9 – Boo, but I have been training for distance, not sprinting recently

Deadlift 1.75 times your body weight

MHF: 1.75 times your weight
AA: 1.5 times
O: Body Weight – Fail – I’m horrible at deadlift, and worried about hurting my back doing it

Do 10 clapping pushups

MHF: 10 – Check, I did 15 actually, then 10 more
AA: 5
O: No Claps

Hold a plank for more than 3 minutes

MHF: More than 3 minutes – Check, 3:27.94 woo!
AA: 2-3 minutes
O: 1 minutes or less

 

I have not gone out of my way to specifically try any of these, though I did do a 3:27 long plank the other day.  The only one that I don’t think I can do it the dead lift, I’m a bit afraid of putting my back out doing the form wrong.  I think though, I might try for a few more of these today at the gym.