Fitness Evaluation

I got up at 5:30am this morning in preparation for my 6:00am fitness evaluation. Living down the street from the gym is going to make it easier for me to handle my business. I don't have to get up an hour early to make it for a specific time.

Anyway, my evaluation went ok. I didn't feel like a chump. All my numbers for strength, flexibility and aerobic were fair/below average. So, I guess the world is my oyster. No where to go but up from here. They took my age, height, weight, resting heart rate and blood pressure. Then they had me walk on a treadmill at 3.4 MPH with an increasing incline. It took me about 8 minutes to reach my max/target heart rate. Then I had to do sit ups and push ups and then a stretch test. All of this without warming up or stretching in advance.

I impressed myself by being able to do 9 push ups before giving up. Once upon a time I could only do one. Granted, this was the girly-push up but I'll be the first to admit that my upper body strength is suspect :)

Well... now I know what I need to do. In September, I will go back for a re-evaluation and see how much progress I've made.