June... my goodness how the time has flewn

[Mid Life Crisis Marathon Man]

When I can do a gate without slowing down 10 paces beforehand, without the sluggish pass through… checking not once, but sometimes twice, that the gate is shut properly, perhaps a quick slurp of water and then the 10 paces afterwards building back up to the pre-gate stride… then, and only then, will I know that am properly fit.  

Couldn't you just vault it?

In all seriousness though, I was having this very discussion about what constitutes fitness with some of the fitness freaks at work the other day. We concluded that the only fitness that really matters is cardiac fitness, which is obviously directly linked to overall health and longevity. Everything else is just a measure of how fit you are for whatever it is you are doing.

So, you can measure your important fitness through resting and recovery heart rates, blood pressure, cholesterol levels and the like.

You might be right about the gate thing, but I can't see too many doctors installing them in their consulting rooms somehow.