Aerobic Fitness Percentage %

[levett]

I went for a 'company sponsored' medical last week - full EGC, and strees test on the treadmill, long performance, recovery rate, etc. and they determined that I have an Aerobic Fitness Level of 91% (thay said that 76% or above is good)

 

But what does it mean? and what does 100% mean?

 

The only 'bad part' of the medical was that the doctor got 'THE WHEEL OF DOOM' out (BMI - height vs weight) and spun it - then told me that I should loose 24kg

 

Does anybody have any insight int % Aerobic Fitness?

[fandacious]

the doctor is an idiot

 

BMI means f-all

[levett]

the doctor is an idiot

 

BMI means f-all

I did tell her that was not a weight that I'd been at since I was about 12 - i.e. more than 30 years ago!

 

Still interested in what % Aerobic Fitness actually means - is it fixed? or related to age?

[aungiers]

Doctor or biokineticist? I do not know why BMI is still taught let alone used. I agree with fandacaious.

I think they mean aerobic capacity which is related to lactate thresholds. A higher aerobic capacity means you can do more work for longer periods of time. If you have an aerobic capacity of 91% that is not bad at all because you can have a high work rate while using aerobic glycolysis as an energy pathway.

 

Who did the testing?

[stewie911]

Would like to know this ya. How can you test aerobic fitness in percentage? Surely something like VO2max makes more sense, but with persentage there's a limit and the human limit increas all the time. THat's why records still get broken.

So will someone be more that 100%??

 

WAs also told at my company's medical that my bmi is too high and I should lose weight. I weighed 70kg at the time. The medical practisioner told me that I should not really weigh more than the last two digits of my height, that being 1.69m. What a wanker.

[levett]

Doctor or biokineticist?

Who did the testing?

It was the biokineticist that did the training and the doctor that told me the 91% and that, from BMI, I shold loose 24kg.

 

The testing was done at Careways in Sunninghill, Jo'burg - quite a good setup, but a 'general' medical assessment facility (company medical) rather than a 'sports medical' place.

 

I also wondered about a % - and what 100% would be?

[Guest teh_runnah]

Most probably just an arbitrary calculation using a scale of 1-100 much like the Vitality fitness assessment using a scale of 1 to 5(? I think) Do not worry too much about the numbers, just be grateful they are on the higher side