Fitness Assessments

How physically fit are you?  Would you like to step up to the next level of fitness, and enjoy the rewards of a healthier lifestyle and a better sense of well-being?  A fitness assessment is the first step toward knowing your body and reaching your goals.  Fitness assessments provide a measure of an individual's fitness level including cardio repiratory endurance, muscular strength and endurance, flexibility, and body composition.  The results can be used in a variety of ways:  To provide baseline information used to create an exercise program; for comparison as you progress and improve; to motivate adherence to an exercise program; or to show where improvement is needed.

University Fitness offers a variety of assessment opportunities:

• Body Composition
  Skinfold calipers are used to measure the body's percentage of fat.
• Flexibility
  The sit-and-reach test assesses low back and hip flexibility. 
• Muscular Strength
  A handgrip dynamometer is used to measure static strength and endurance of the grip squeezing muscles.  We also offer an optional muscular endurance push-up test for advanced exercisers.
• Cardiovascular Endurance
  Our three minute step test is designed to measure your cardiovascular endurance.  Using a 12-inch high bench, participants step on and off for three minutes, then their heart rate is recorded immediately following.
• Kinetic Chain Assessment
  The kinetic chain assessment is used to determine how balanced you are with regard to your posture, muscle function, and neurological stimulus.
  

Members:	$15 per assessment $60 all five assessments with a free half hour personal training session.
Non-Members:	$25 per assessment $100 all five assessments with a free half hour personal training session.

  
For information call Jayme Johnson at (513) 584-5919 or e-mail Jayme.Johnson@uc.edu