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Detailed Fitness/Health Assessment

  • 01-04-2008 8:34pm
    #1
    ike
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,406 ✭✭✭


    Is there anywhere in Ireland where you can go to get a detailed fitness/health assessment, I don't mean the type of thing you get at your local gym or from your GP, but the sort of assessment where your put on the threadmill with various devices attached. Something to test the things like lung function, body fat, aerobic fitness etc.


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  • #2
    Froot
    Closed Accounts Posts: 546 ✭✭✭Froot


    The Mardyke arena in Cork has a system like that I believe.

    It's the UCC gym complex so it has some good facilities. Their website is here.

    Their website is not kept up to date by the way, I am putting it here so you can contact them to find out if they can help.


  • #3
    SMK
    Closed Accounts Posts: 190 ✭✭SMK


    The Mater Private does a health check - like the one on the TV programme How Long Will You Live. Details are on their website http://www.materprivate.ie/about/HealthCheck.asp


  • #4
    ike
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,406 ✭✭✭ike


    Thanks for the responses, the Mardyke seems to be more what I have in mind as its more based around fitness assessment. The Mater looks pretty detailed (would nearly be afraid of some of the results :eek:) certainly worth considering at some stage


  • #5
    Colm_OReilly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,577 ✭✭✭Colm_OReilly


    May I ask what reason you have for such an expensive test?

    The threadmill test with the tubes attached is measuring your VO2 Max - your maximal ability to utilise oxygen. It's terribly accurate, but VO2 Max is activity specific, meaning you'll have a running VO2 Max, a swimming VO2 Max, a rowing VO2 Max, etc etc.

    Any bodyfat test is terribly inaccurate, unfortunately - an deven the most sensitive of tests can have a variance of 7%. The only true way to measure BF accurately would be to get your corpse and separate the fat through chemicals.

    An inexpensive self assessment can be done by regularly testing you're ability at different tasks. If you can run a 10K in 3 minutes faster than before, your VO2 Max has increased. If you take a picture now and in 4 weeks of your body under the same lighting conditions and see more definition, your BF has decreased.

    Are you doing this for a particular activity? If so there's probably other tests you can self administer to check up on your fitness levels.

    Col


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