Defintion of 'fit'

[keith]

At gym on the spinning bike I max out at 192 and average +-173 over 20 min. I find for me the closer I can get much average to my max the better. My resting HR is about 55. Why when you get older does your max HR drop?

[Azonic]

At gym on the spinning bike I max out at 192 and average +-173 over 20 min. I find for me the closer I can get much average to my max the better. My resting HR is about 55. Why when you get older does your max HR drop?

 

Its so that when the day you die, your max HR is 0.

[AndreZA]

I remember my father telling me he was so fit when he was SA champ that no matter what he did he'd never ever get stiff or sore!!!

 

 

 

So how were you made?

 

Okay, I see the door.

 

 

[Wonder Woman]

I remember my father telling me he was so fit when he was SA champ that no matter what he did he'd never ever get stiff or sore!!!

 

 

 

So how were you made?

 

Okay' date=' I see the door.

 

 

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Good one!!!

 

[keith]

How do things always become dodge here? Focus people!

[Spinnekop]

So how were you made?

 

Mampara, het jy al gesien hoe bou 'n Zulu sy klei hut?  Hy gooi dit so met die hand...

 

OK....wag vir my.....wa jou deur?

 

[Wonder Woman]

So how were you made?

 

Mampara' date=' het jy al gesien hoe bou 'n Zulu sy klei hut?  Hy gooi dit so met die hand...

 

OK....wag vir my.....wa jou deur?

 

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Wow, my dad did a pretty good job then

 

[boeing]

 

Weight doesn't feature in fitness really, and heart rate is a personal indicator. I remember Chris Froome's max HR being 148. Also V02max is not a fitness indicator. It is merely a gauge of endurance capability. You cannot increase your VO2max

boeing2008-07-03 05:11:53

[SwissVan]

 

Being Fit goes further than heart rates, lactic threshold, ftp, watts, ect.....

 

Overall body strength, power, speed, endurance, flexibilty, health (including mental health) , ect... all factor into the "Fit" equation.

 

 

 

 

[zues-zues]

At gym on the spinning bike I max out at 192 and average +-173 over 20 min. I find for me the closer I can get much average to my max the better. My resting HR is about 55. Why when you get older does your max HR drop?

 

Its so that when the day you die' date=' your max HR is 0.

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[splat]

I have yet to meet someone who admits to being fit.

Ask another cyclist (who is stronger than you) if they are fit and see the vague answer you get. Then watch them ride away from the group without raising a sweat.

 

Athletes are very modest (liars) when it comes to talking about thier fitness levels - unless you get down to comparing resting heart rates...

[Nancy Drew]

I reckon being fit is being able to ride up a hill comfortably without wanting to vomit when you get to the top

[jabbathemutt007]

 

I reckon being fit is being able to ride up a hill comfortably without wanting to vomit when you get to the top

 

It never gets easier, you just go faster - Greg LeMond

 

[TNT1]

 

and there's always someone better than you!!

 

Speak for yourself

 

[Canaris]

fitness is really about matching yourself to the task at hand.

So physical fitness is the ability to do physical actvity effortlessly. 

Obviously there must be a baseline fitness measure, which is the fitness required to function as a human being.  Here obesity, overweightness and BMI are good starting points.  A morbid obese is definitely not fit.  A anorexic is not fit.  In fact most people are not really fit enough to enjoy life properly.

THe difficulty comes with sportsmen/ women who are fitter than the minimum requirement of getting out of bed and feeding oneself.  Here the military standard may be a possible baseline, 2.4km under 12 minutes, 40 or so pushups and situps and a routemarch.  But this again only tests relavant muscle groups to a desired minimum standard.

 

For proffesional sportsmen/women fitness cannot be measured objectively, but is a normative issue, if you lose or come second then you not fit enough, or you were the third, fourth ext fittest on the day.

 

THerefore to try operationalise fitness into a quantative measurement is simply to complex.  Rather stand at a subjective, I feel great being fit (even if you are overweight and lazy)

[Wonder Woman]

KonaFan, you can't say that the person who came second isn't as fit as the person who came first....there is such a thing as talent....especially when you are getting to those upper levels of competition.

 

The person who came second may actually be fitter but not as talented??