Home Fitness Testing Guide

Why Test?

An initial fitness testing session can be used to give you an idea where your fitness levels are at the start of a training program, so that future testing can be compared to this and any changes can be noted.

Once a baseline level of fitness has been measured, regular testing can be used to monitor changes over time. A baseline is especially important if you are about to embark on a new training phase.

Fitness testing is also a useful form of motivation. The incentive to improve can often be provided by the 'goal' of a certain test score or rating.

More details are in the Home Fitness Test Manual

see also the articles about What to Test and How to Test.