How to Evaluate Personal Fitness
You cannot live a healthy life until or unless you are mentally and physically fit. In order to attain mental fitness, you have to make yourself physically fit which you can only achieve through exercise. Generally, people believe that if they exercise daily, they become fit. However, you have to follow a certain criterion so as to evaluate your physical fitness. It is not very difficult to evaluate your personal fitness. All you need is a little time to follow some basic techniques to evaluate the level of your fitness.
Instructions
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First of all, you have to do knee bends for which you have to stand on your feet, keeping your back against your wall and holding your shoulders wider. Then, make your abdomen firm and push your lower back into the wall. After that, you have to walk your feet in the forward direction for around 2 feet. You have to bend your feet as much as you can comfortably. Meanwhile, you have to make sure that your knees don’t protrude away from your ankles. Keep yourself in the same position for as long as you can and note down your timings.
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Now, you have to stand up on your legs while keeping your hip wider. Then, bend your knees a little bit and hold a ball or 5 lbs dumbbells in your hands. After that, extend your arms and bend forward towards the right. Do the same move, but this time in the opposite direction and keep doing that until you can. Note down the timings.
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To do the push-ups, you have to place your hands on the floor and extend your legs on the floor. Lower your chest downwards by bending your elbows and pull it back. Keep repeating this until you can. In the end, note down the number of your push-ups.
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Knee lifts are also one of the most widely used techniques to evaluate your personal fitness. To do that, you have to stand up on your feet and keep your shoulder wider. Then, you have to curve your lower back by tucking your tailbone a little bit until the muscles in your lower tummy become firm. After that, you have to shift your weight on the right foot. Repeat the same step with your right leg and continue shifting legs. Note down the knee lifts you do in one go.
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Gather your scores and compare it with the standards which vary according to the weight and height.
