Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Fitness Testing week

This week is Fitness Testing week at Attitude to Burn. Because we 'do it outdoors' we don't have access to treadmills, stationery bikes etc to do what would normally be considered as 'formal' types of sub-maximal testing.
Our testing is based on what is functional or appropriate for our style of training.
So...
last night was the following:
set 4 cones up 10 m apart - each cone has an exercise, ie
10 alt. lunges
10 situps
10 tricep dips
10 pushups
race back to start - how many rounds in 10 minutes. One tester got 1 and 3/4 more laps around this time around from 6 weeks ago, which is excellent.

Then the next test was:

Mark out a designated area, and do one lap of the area running (or run/walk depending on fitness levels of participants), then 10 pushups, 10 situps, 5 burpees. Time for 3 laps through.

Then we finished off with # of pushups/situps/10m shuttle runs over 1 minute period.
All had made great gains since the last 6 week testing.

Wednesday night is Beep Test night - which will be followed by strength & kettlebells.

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