How fit am I?
Ever wondered how fit you are? Or if all this cycling is making any difference!
Click here for a spreadsheet that allows you to estimate your fitness using a step test. This test is not very good for comparing different people (can easily be 20% out). But is pretty good for tracking changes following, for example, several weeks of cycling.
In fact you can track your fitness using any standard exercise task and checking your heart rate at the end of the task. For example walk, run or cycle a set course at the same speed and check your heart rate. Need a task that takes several minutes. Otherwise anything that you can do in a repeatable way will do.
Click here for a spreadsheet that allows you to estimate your fitness using a step test. This test is not very good for comparing different people (can easily be 20% out). But is pretty good for tracking changes following, for example, several weeks of cycling.
In fact you can track your fitness using any standard exercise task and checking your heart rate at the end of the task. For example walk, run or cycle a set course at the same speed and check your heart rate. Need a task that takes several minutes. Otherwise anything that you can do in a repeatable way will do.