Sit on a sturdy chair with your feet hip width apart and your hands resting on your knees.
Stand up chair fitness test.
Perform the test twice and record the best result.
But the new test is more difficult and.
Place your hands on the opposite shoulder crossed at the wrists.
The chair test involves timing how long it takes for you to stand up and down from a chair ten times.
A variation on the classic chair test where a subject is asked to stand up from a seated position in a chair which doctors have long used to assess leg strength and lower body fitness in.
Roen kelly discover scoring the two basic movements in the sitting rising test lowering to the floor and standing back up are each scored on a 1 to 5 scale with one point subtracted each time a hand or knee is used for support and 0 5 points.
Doctors have long used the chair test where a person stands up from a sitting position to determine leg strength and lower body fitness of seniors.
It s a simple and relatively universal way of assessing the strength of your muscles.
Keep your feet lat on the loor.
From here time how long it takes you to stand up walk for eight feet turn around and return to your seat.
Keep your back straight and keep your arms against your chest.
Now stand back up trying not to use your hands knees forearms or sides of your legs.
This test is part of the senior fitness test protocol and is designed to test the functional fitness of seniors.
The chair test dr michael mosley and professor lorna paul show you an easy fitness test you can do at home.
Sit in the middle of the chair.