Minimum standard benchmarks of fitness

Canluum

What benchmarks of fitness do you think pretty much every able-bodied person should be able to do? No gender segregation here, too far away from any kind elite level for that to matter in the slightest, just humans doing what we were built to be able to do.

This came about as I was pondering what level of fitness I would either like or encourage a potential future partner to be at (so I guess women were in mind here).

Without further ado this is the list I came up with:

• squat own bodyweight
• deadlift own bodyweight
• 1 pull-up
• 1 dip with good form
• run 1 mile in <11mins (or 1km in 6mins)
• 50cm box jump

I guess these would represent a level above which it would no longer be an issue for me, for a partner that is. They could carry on happily with whatever variety of exercise (or lack there-of) they enjoy without any concern from myself.

Are some of those too ambitious? Or not ambitious enough? Any you would add/change/remove?

dazed+confused

What kind of a psycho are you? Are you going to march her down to the gym and actually test this stuff out, will you be testing several potential mates at the same time?

Will this be all you'll be basing your decision on or will you be taking personality and compatibilty into account?

Is your name Joe O'Reilly?

Canluum

dazed+confused wrote: »

What kind of a psycho are you? Are you going to march her down to the gym and actually test this stuff out, will you be testing several potential mates at the same time?

lol... if only we lived in such an ideal world. I mean it is likely the biggest decision you're gonna make in life, a bit of scientific method can only help
Nah it's more an attraction thing. I don't want to make this gender specific but I can only really speak of women in this regard. The difference in musculature between a woman who can do a pullup and your average thin sedentary woman (with an atrophied upper back) is usually pretty stark.

dazed+confused wrote: »

Will this be all you'll be basing your decision on or will you be taking personality and compatibilty into account?

Well yeah it'd be another box to tick, similar to not being fat, having a nice a preferred shape/face, sharing certain core values, flexibility (not in the physical sense) are they an asset or drain etc. etc.

dazed+confused wrote: »

Is your name Joe O'Reilly?

I think we've gone OT enough. Surely you have some minimum level? Being able to walk a mile to the shop to buy you enough beer to get drunk on and carry it back?

Poncherello

Shes not worth looking at unless she can do 15 unbroken Overhead Squats with her own bodyweight

TommyKnocker

Mod Note:

Thread Closed!!! The criteria you use when looking for a potential mate is not a fitness related topic. Even if your methods involve some physical feats.


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