Bob Mann's Fitness Testing At Home
Here are details about the best selling video "Bob Mann's Fitness Testing At Home", which you can use to quickly determine your fitness level with a few easy tests that can be done at home. The video stars fitness guru Bob Mann and his assistant Taina Lahdekorpi.
The video assesses three fitness component: aerobic fitness, body fat composition and muscular fitness. No special equipment required? Here's what you need. For a start you will need this video (you can buy it on Amazon). Don't worry, you won't need a VHS player as you can stream it directly from Amazon. You will need a scale and tape measure. You will also need a stepping box 8 inches (20.3 cm) high. You may also need a 16.25 inch (41.3cm) step if you qualify for the advanced test.
Bob Mann's Fitness Tests (in suggested order)
- Step Test: Using the 8-inch step box. It is a 4-minute test, three minutes of stepping at a rate of 24 complete steps per minute. After three minutes, there is a rest period of 30 seconds, then measure your pulse for 30 seconds. (see our home step test)
- sit-up test: maximum number of sit-ups in a minute. (see our home sit-up test)
- Body Composition Test: body fat calculation using formula based on hip girth and height measurement (females) and waist girth and body weight (males).
- push-up test: maximum number of push-ups in a minute. Women do a modified push-up from the knees. (see our home push-up test)
- Step Test (Advanced): this test is only for those achieving a score of excellent from the first step test performed. This step test uses a higher step (16.25 inches). You step for 3 minutes at 22 steps per minute (females) or 24 steps per minute (males), and take a pulse reading starting 5 seconds after completing the stepping, and count for 15 seconds. VO2max is estimated using a formula using the heart rate measurement.
From the cover: "The home fitness test will provide valuable information that would cost hundreds of dollars at an outside testing facility... these savings will be repeated every time you test your progress. Now for less than the cost of one running shoe or a bicycle tire, you and your family and friends can test your progress as often as you like in less than 20 minutes at home. You simply do the tests with Taina & Bob and use the video charts to calculate your progress."
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Home Fitness Testing Manual
Download your free copy of the Home Fitness Testing Manual — a guide for you to plan, conduct, analyze and interpret fitness testing at home.
Related Pages
- Fitness Tests at Home — links to a few fitness tests suitable to do yourself at home.
- A Home Fitness Testing Kit — the basics required for you to test yourself at home.
- Are You Fit? Some simple tests to assess your fitness level.
- About the Home Fitness Testing Manual.
- See the Fitness Test List for the complete range of tests.
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