How Do You Monitor Your Fitness?

From doing next to no fitness 18 months ago, I now do several hours a week. I run about 10 miles a week and do Brazilian Jui Jitsu every week. I've also just done my first half marathon.

I'm probably the fitness I've ever been. And you know what?

I've never felt worse!!! I'm sore everywhere, I feel 10 years older and the only time I'm not hurting is when I'm running or doing BJJ.

So I measure my fitness by how long it takes me to get out of bed!
 
cambsno said:
I monitor it with my belt - if i don't need one I need to lose weight!!
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Lol for me it is the opposite, if I can wear my trousers without a belt then it means they don't get pushed down :)

But yes that and whether I can do up my top button on my shirt.

Oh and a withings wifi scale :)
 
Ah but the question was fitness and not weight. For fitness I've got a mile and half run that I do with my dog and daughter. It's my benchmark cross country trail run. When my fitness is bad I tend to run up the hills and walk down to get my heart rate back down. And the restore of my heart rate is my real indicator, when it restores pretty quickly I'm off again, and so on.

At the moment, well let's say it's hot and it restores slowly.
 
Just remembered another test; how many times I can wrap a towel around my waist following a shower.
 
dejongj said:
Lol for me it is the opposite, if I can wear my trousers without a belt then it means they don't get pushed down :)

But yes that and whether I can do up my top button on my shirt.

Oh and a withings wifi scale :)
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What has fitness got to do with doing up your shirt top button?
 
When 30 seconds between sets is too long. Also how many reps I can get out of squatting with a barbell equal to my body weight before I feel like passing out from lack of oxygen.
 
dejongj said:
Ah but the question was fitness and not weight. For fitness I've got a mile and half run that I do with my dog and daughter. It's my benchmark cross country trail run. When my fitness is bad I tend to run up the hills and walk down to get my heart rate back down. And the restore of my heart rate is my real indicator, when it restores pretty quickly I'm off again, and so on.

At the moment, well let's say it's hot and it restores slowly.
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nilagin said:
What has fitness got to do with doing up your shirt top button?
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Read on my friend, read on.
 
If I'm fit I sit at my computer if not I lie on the settee using my I.pad to answer inane comments on here :beer::beer::wave:
 
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nilagin said:
I think I get it, (y) It's just I've never been one for doing up my top button and couldn't understand the comparison.
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Being a gym go-er your idea of fitness is probably that you can't do up your top button due to massive chest, back and traps, the opposite to dejongj!
 
TopBanana said:
Being a gym go-er your idea of fitness is probably that you can't do up your top button due to massive chest, back and traps, the opposite to dejongj!
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I've never liked doing the top button up even as a kid, didn't like the feel of anything too tight around the neck. Even when wearing a tie, the top button remains undone and tie not too tight.
But yes, I do find shirts when bought by neck size disproportionate to chest size.
But fitness has nothing to do with whether you can do up your buttons. I see obviously overweight people in the gym (not overweight due to muscle neither) yet they can run on a treadmill, go on a rower or cross trainer for at least 1/2 an hour working out at a very good pace and not be out of breath when they finish.
Cardio workouts bore me so I use weights and utilise short recovery periods in a certain way that still enables me to increase muscle mass whilst also improving fitness levels.
Before I moved work location, we had yearly medicals including a lung capacity test. My tests always resulted in the lung capacity of a 29yr old even at the age of 51. I must book myself in for another and see if it has changed.
Even though I played rugby at school, 5 a side football as an apprentice and did Karate for a few years, I'd say I was a lot fitter now than I was then and a lot more committed to remaining so too.
 
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