- To identify your weeknesses and turn them into strengths
- Testing provides fitness markers that can help motivate change
- Fitness testing will quantify your current fitness status (where are you?)
- Testing can identify contraindications to training (signs of risk?)
- To compare past performances and predict future performance
- Prescribe training prescriptions and progressions
- To educate yourself
- Specific outcomes
- To generate your individualized heart rate training zones
- To help generate specific critical power zones (cyclists)
- To evaluate and track your:
- metaboic fitness level (lactate threshold)
- oxygen economy level (endurance athletes)
- peak power output (sprinter and criterion cyclists)
- body composition (body fat%, BMI)
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