While walking or using the stair-climber or another cardio machine, you might focus on your breathing or heart rate to gauge how hard you’re working. That’s a perfectly good approach—but it won’t tell ...

While walking, hiking or doing other cardiovascular exercise, you might focus on your breathing or heart rate to gauge how hard you’re working. That’s a perfectly good approach, but it won’t tell you ...

After watching Jason Kelce challenge veterans to a push-up contest during ESPN’s “Monday Night Countdown”, I had the idea to find four more fitness tests you can do to assess your fitness level ...

Starting a new workout routine? Just curious where you stand? Use these exercises to measure your fitness. Starting a new workout routine? Just curious where you stand? Use these exercises to measure ...

Based on a 1940s test designed to assess the fitness of American military personnel, this (easier) YMCA version, developed in the 1970s, simply requires you to step on and off a step for three minutes ...

Exercise tests, heart rate and physical ability can tell you more about your health than the scale ever could. By Dana G. Smith Exercise is one of the best things you can do for your mental and ...

How easily can you balance on one leg? How quickly can you get in and out of a chair without using your arms? Can you touch your toes? These might sound like straightforward exercises, but experts say ...