Aerobic fitness test measures

Your heart rate at rest is a measure of heart health and fitness. For most adults, a healthy heart rate is 60 to 100 beats a minute.To check your p......

Aerobic fitness

Aadland, EivindTerum, TorkilMamen, AsgeirAndersen, Lars BoResaland, Geir KåreionedTZbleTZonPLoS ONE.

, 9, enb_NOption© Aadland et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.nb_NOctBackground: High aerobic fitness is consistently associated with a favorable metabolic risk profile in children.

Direct measurement of peak oxygen consumption (VO2peak) is often not feasible, thus indirect tests such as the Andersen test are required in many settings. The present study seeks to determine the reliability and validity of the Andersen test in year-old children. Methods: A total of year-old children (67 boys and 51 girls) were recruited from one school and performed four VO2peak tests over three weeks: three