This fitness article is appearing in this Sunday's New York Times magazine. You can try it yourself by using the calculator researchers developed. Even in my gimpy state, I registered a fitness age considerably lower than my real age of 45. How do you guys do? - Dave
What’s Your ‘Fitness Age’?
By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS
Trying to quantify your aerobic fitness is a daunting task. It usually requires access to an exercise-physiology lab. But researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim have developed a remarkably low-tech means of precisely assessing aerobic fitness and estimating your “fitness age,” or how well your body functions physically, relative to how well it should work, given your age.
ARTICLE: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/1...r-health/?_r=0
CALCULATOR: http://www.ntnu.edu/cerg/vo2max
By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS
Trying to quantify your aerobic fitness is a daunting task. It usually requires access to an exercise-physiology lab. But researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim have developed a remarkably low-tech means of precisely assessing aerobic fitness and estimating your “fitness age,” or how well your body functions physically, relative to how well it should work, given your age.
ARTICLE: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/1...r-health/?_r=0
CALCULATOR: http://www.ntnu.edu/cerg/vo2max
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