Muscular Fitness Assessment

Muscular Fitness Assessment

Headline Summary- As stated in the aerobic assessment, the client’s goals are to increase his aerobic capacity, to do well in the CrossFit open, be better prepared for his job in law enforcement, and live an overall healthier lifestyle. Just as aerobic fitness is essential to these goals muscular fitness is as well. I assessed my client’s upper body strength, lower body strength, lower body endurance, upper body endurance and core endurance. To assess a baseline of muscular strength and endurance for reference when prescribing an exercise program, my client was asked to determine and test to a 1 repetition max on standing overhead press and back squat for muscular strength. For muscular endurance the client performed

The client is regularly told to move heavy loads which requires a strong leg base developed from exercises like a back squat and maintaining a good overhead position is important in many Olympic lifts seen in Crossfit. The overhead press or shoulder press was chosen to test this overhead position strength. The other 3 tests were meant to test endurance so the fundamental movements of sit-ups, push-ups, and air squats the client was well versed in were selected over other tests requiring specific

My client was a collegiate football athlete and it makes sense that some of the strength training from then would still be present today and coupled with his normal exercise routine makes his advanced scores understandable. Upper body fitness overall is also a strength for my client, but is not as dominant as his lower. His endurance tests rank him, on average, much higher than his strength test so when prescribing training this would be important to remember. One outlier in the client’s tests was his core endurance score of 30th percentile. I do not believe that his score accurately represents his core endurance or fitness. I believe that the normative data that was used to place him within a category was created by using different movement standards or different scoring criteria giving an inaccurate reading. Overall, my client’s muscular endurance and fitness rank him quite highly in comparison to other males in his age group. This is likely due to his normal high intensity exercise training and daily job activities of being a police