Are You Fit ― Which Of These Challenges Can You Accomplish?
From time to time popular magazines and others will publish various ideas of what it means to be a fit person―or fit man, as happens to be my particular interest.
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One of the first such lists I encountered was in a Men's Health magazine article entitles A Fit Man Can.... This article dates to 2006, though an updated variation was published in 2015 and there are probably others.
Thinking back to 2006 I had just graduated with my bachelor's degree. I'd focused on history and business and was preparing for law school. I also worked as a coder, behind a desk in front of screen 9.5-18 hours a day. Although I had maintained a consistent running regimen since mustering out of the army, my life had been mostly bookish.
I couldn't do any of the things on the list as far as I recall and have been working on them ever since―although sometimes with much more inspiration and focus than at others.
At times I have been able to check more than a few of these on the list, though I don't think I've ever had a moment when I was simultaneously able to accomplish them all. But I continue to try.
Can you...
- bench press 150% of your body weight?
- run a mile and a half (2.4 km) in 10 minutes or less?
- make a vertical jump of 26 inches (66 cm) or more?
- leg press 225% of your body weight?
- swim 700 yards (640 m) in 12 minutes or less?
- do 40 push ups?
- run 300 yards (275 m) in less than 1 minute?
- toss a basketball 75 feet from a kneeling position (23 m)?
- maintain a ratio between your hip and waist circumferences of less than 0.81
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Nice.
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Not bad.
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Cool!
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How many minutes do I have to make the push-ups? :) I should try tomorrow.
I love swimming.
I think it's as long as you can do 40 without stopping, i.e. getting out of pushup position. In the army there was also a two minute time limit. In practice I don't think this mattered much, as I didn't find it very helpful to rest in a proper push-up position. I suppose some do.
I love to swim too―especially in the ocean =)
I'd like to live at the see when I will retire... No idea if I 'll have the money
However...I'm not very fast, lol.
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I don't think I can do any of these :)
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There've been days when I couldn't either =)
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