\u201cHealth exists on a continuum,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s not like if you can do nine push-ups instead of 10\u2026you\u2019re not achieving health-related [objectives].\u201d<\/p>\n
Pull-ups can be a great indicator of an overall healthy balance of muscle tissue to body fat, Sorensen says. Still, he admits, for many it may be more of a \u201cskill-based assessment, rather than just fitness.\u201d As a ballpark goal, he encourages men to aim for 10 pull-ups in a row and women to aim for four, which roughly corresponds to the repetition range for building muscle tissue.<\/p>\n
Love it or hate it, the plank is another reliable marker of overall fitness and strength, Sorensen says. While there\u2019s no universal agreement on how long to hold a plank, he recommends that all adults train towards a one-minute plank as a minimum. But good plank form is a must, he warns, otherwise \u201cit often turns into more of a shoulder endurance drill than a core assessment.\u201d<\/p>\n
Why mobility may be the most overlooked measure of health<\/p>\n
Fitness isn\u2019t all about power and endurance. Mobility\u2014the ability of your joints and muscles to move through their full range of motion\u2014is one of the best predictors of long-term health and independence.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe problem is we get older, we get stiffer, we lose joint mobility, and eventually [we] lose function,\u201d Fredericson says. \u201cThe better your mobility, the better you can do everyday activities like get up from the floor, a chair, reach from behind.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cHealth exists on a continuum,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s not like if you can do nine push-ups instead of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[49904,72385,499,72377,72384,72378,103,72383,72382,61,60,72381,72379,72380,62145],"class_list":["post-121436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fitness","tag-aerobic-fitness","tag-best-measures-of-health","tag-fitness","tag-fitness-benchmarks","tag-fitness-standards-by-age","tag-fitness-tests","tag-health","tag-how-fit-should-you-be","tag-how-to-measure-fitness","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mile-run-fitness-test","tag-plank-test","tag-pull-up-test","tag-push-up-test"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}