Muscular Fitness Assessment Headline Summary I assess my 23 year old male client’s upper and lower body strength and endurance and core endurance. My client’s goals are to build his endurance and tone his body. My client was classified as below average for muscular strength for both upper and lower, and was excellent or very good for core, upper, and lower body muscular endurance. Purpose & Importance of Test The purpose of this test was to assess the client’s muscular fitness, identify his limitations, and help identify areas of weaknesses and strengths. It was important for the client to do this assessment to test his muscular fitness to give me a baseline for his exercise prescription. I can use his results to see if the client’s strength and endurance are either above, below, or average for his age …show more content…
I can also use his results to write an adequate exercise prescription to reach his muscular fitness goals. Explanation of the Test I split the muscular fitness assessment between two days, so my client would not feel overwhelmed. On the first day my client did muscular endurance at his home because the exercises did not require any equipment. On the second day we did the muscular strength at his local gym because the exercises required equipment. Before we started the endurance test, I had my client do some jumping-jacks and a few stretches to prepare his body for exercise. For my client’s upper body endurance test, he did a 1-minute push-up test. My client told me after he done this test that his back was hurting during the test, so I made him rest for about 5 to 10 minutes. He also did a 1-minute sit-up test for his core endurance. He did not complain about his back hurting during this test. After that, he did air squats for 1-minute. The air