Well, I can definitely feel the results of yesterday’s “fitness” test. Apparently, Tessa, a fellow classmate can too, because I just liked her facebook status saying “Everything hurts-I can’t lift my arms...Stupid fitness tests”! She doesn’t seem too happy about this but I am over-the-moon. I am a pain=gain kind of girl (although this is not correct thinking, more on that later). Perhaps some stretching was in order.
The test wasn’t exactly what I had in mind, or expected, but nonetheless, it’s going to work. Ultimate letdown as I walked into the HKE laboratory. Not the fact that I felt like a lab rat in a laboratory, but that I noticed the predominant female presence..... I have decided to use this to my advantage and to get my body looking like those skinny....
For starters we were split into groups of four. My group was given heart monitors and made to do steps for 6 minutes in beat to some machine basically “up, up, down, down” and after every two minutes the pace increased. According to Daneel (another classmate) mine was good but seen as we are both learning, I’d rather wait for the trainers to give the report back. Turns out we are having group exercise once a week with the trainers, they are not being individually allocated, and then we will do later tests to see our progress. My dream of a personal trainer is dashed. But perhaps, group training and group weigh in’s are the way forward? The group environment certainly made the guys more competitive.
We were then taken to get our BMI and hip-to-waist ratios done, highlight: I LOVE THE HKE SCALE! I weigh 59.4kg according to their scale and I was thinking I’d be 62kg. Apparently at my height of 1.64m I have a healthy BMI of 22something, which is healthy. My hip to waist ratio, well let’s just say, I am a pear. Which isn’t bad, but isn’t great either. I want them to be equal apparently according to the one trainer. In which case, point proven, my thighs need to go.
Further tests that were done include, flexibility, power (this included jumping up as high as you could), balancing on one leg with your eyes closed- I think I would definitely kick butt on survivor. My stomach has just reminded me about the sit-ups and burpies. Oh and of course the push-ups. I chose to do the men’s push ups. Bad choice? Nah, I could only do 16 in 2 minutes but this will improve and my teacher-arms will disappear.
Furthermore, we are encouraged to do exercise at least 3 times a week excluding our once a week standing appointment with our trainers. This is not a problem for me as I take spinning classes three times a week and of course underwater hockey and ballroom. I suppose this should all be rounded off with a balanced diet....but we are starting off slowly.
First lesson on my way to health: BMI is an adequate measure. Sure it is not the only measure but it is accurate. Unless you are a short body builder who has a ton of muscle, you will get trustworthy results.
How to measure your BMI: (Your weight) divided by (your height)²
My BMI: (59.4)/(1.64)² =22.085
A healthy BMI is between 19 and 24. A BMI of 25-30 means that you are overweight. Anything above means that you are obese. A BMI of less than 18.5 means that you are underweight.
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