What Is Your Fitness Score?

[bcalvanese]

Mine came out to 41 (excellent for men my age).

I do cardio (power walking/running/biking) just about every day and just turned 60 in August.

Curious what other folks fitness score came out to.

[An_Ferbasach]

I read what was on the fitbit which is different when calculated. For the
Norwegian measurement which is higher than the normal measurement I am as
fit as a 20 year old and am 61. My ancestors live to be over 100. I am not
concerned. My lung capacity was diagnosed.by an allergy doctor recently as
that of a 25 year old man. Probably since I have hiked all my life and sing.

[Colinm39]

@dataloreThis popped up in a search and being 12 months on nothing much has changed for me.

Cardio Fitness: 42-46

RHR:  52

SpO2: 96 (third party Pulse Oximeter). Edited.. Just finished mowing.. and now Sp02 is 98***.

Kardia AFib: suggests Sinus Bradycardia.. My cardiologist says no.. All healthy.

Age:  79

Activity Level: 1.53 (Average Calories burned/BMR)

Sleep: Average 7.5 hrs

*** When I did my last treadmill stress test the Dr kept me going because he noticed I was getting oxygen from somewhere the longer I went..  The Oimeter has a +/- 2% error factor.

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@Colinm39wrote:

I have noticed my RHR has gone up 3 points in a week on the Ionic and my Fitness score has dropped 1 point to 42-46 for a 77 yr. It's always been excellent but my doctors have told me to blame my parents. I'm genetically designed that way.. They said my body is designed for endurance. My recent cardiologist checkup has me with a normal functioning heart.

Some years ago I had a stress test on the inclined treadmill... All wired up and breathing apparatus. As we approach the end of the test the doctor asked me to keep going because I was getting extra oxygen from somewhere.  So another 2 minutes. His observations were the same, genetically built that way.

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Lol, your post brings up some good memories. One of my jobs in graduate school was crunching numbers for a sports scientist. I've looked at hundreds of VO2 Max scores. The funny thing was the young guys almost always overestimated their fitness level, while the women almost always underestimated their fitness levels. Guys would brag about benching 350 and would claim they could do 100 straight push-ups; they'd reach muscle failure at 20. We would primarily test athletes and former athletes and the senior citizen runners would almost always have the highest scores. Some were just built that way, but there was a definete correlation between years of endurance work and training the body to process oxygen. The ones that cross trained and did strength training would test decades younger than their age. We had an 80 year old that swam, lifted, and ran every day, and looking at his test scores you would have pegged him as a fit guy in his late 30's. Exercise is the closest thing we have to a wonder drug. 

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Otherwise well.. Accept a first time issue..... b%!^!* gout attack.. First time ever.. Uric Acid increase..

[Simjohn58]

Mine 46 - also 60 last August. I run, walk, swim, bike & hike. Lost 45lbs in 2013 and never looked back. Resting heart rate about 57. 

[SunsetRunner]

AWesome!

[Simjohn58]

Back at ya 

[Ckarega]

I am 68 and my cardio fitness score is

42-46 avg

It is noted that is excellent for a man my age

[Ckarega]

mind is 41-45 avg

I am 68

[pointy101]

I'm 50 ,my average RHR is around 58 and my fitness score is 57 and has been for about a year ,I exercise a lot from running to functional to gym .It can only estimate your vo2max due to the SPO2 sensor not being activated.

For work we use the Chester step test to work out your vow max ( fitness score)

[Whistler888]

Mine is 51 with GPS and 53-57 without GPS.  Seems high so personally take the numbers with a grain of salt.  Would like to take a proper clinical lab measurement with mask some day.  But really would not matter other than for personal interest.

Screenshots are in my profile at the bottom of that webpage.

[SunsetRunner]

45-49 

age 71

[Ckarega]

Thank you for the information
I'm 68 and my cardio fitness score is
41-45

[Mattyman]

Mine is 70 which is apparently in the excellent range for a 21 year old male at 139 pounds 

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@bcalvanese wrote:

Mine came out to 41 (excellent for men my age).

I do cardio (power walking/running/biking) just about every day and just turned 60 in August.

Curious what other folks fitness score came out to.

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[Colinm39]

I'm 80 next birthday and my score is 42-46, RHR typically 54.  Excellent.

To make sense of the figures, and for about $60AUD I purchased a Pulse Oximeter and that always gives me a reading between 97-98%.. Normal oxygen saturation levels should be between 90 and 100%.

Also a stress test I had for cardio a few years ago, the specialists made me walk for a couple of extra minutes because they said, "You are getting extra oxygen and your Vo2 is excellent."

Built for endurance, not speed....

Even though Fitbit haven't released their SpO2 feature I'm happy with the accuracy of the Cardio Score based on the testing above.

[Lindass]

I am an obese 67 year old woman.  I walk around 13k steps a day and keep busy.  I have a very low resting heart rate.  Can be as low as 50 when very relaxed.  My cardio fitness score is 35-39 (excellent for women my age).  Think it is due to heart rate.

[Andybal]

I am 66 male with a 55-58 resting heart rate who exercises a lot (trying to influence some heart problems) - 22,500 steps per day + ~50 flights of stairs per day. I am a little outside the healthy range (BMI - 26.6) but Doctors tell me I am not overweight because I have wide shoulders and a few legacy muscles in my upper body. To get inside the BMI of 25 I would need to lose 5 kgs or grow 3.5cm. 

Fitbit told me I had an excellent fitness score 46-50. I wondered what the maximum score was. It seemed logical from the description that it was a mark out of 50.

So imagine my surprise when recently it still stated that my fitness range was exellent for my age group but now showed a fitness score of 47-51.

If your score of 41 for a 60 year old is also considered excellent this would indicate that the scales are not comparable. From some of the other scores and ratings mentioned below it seems that there are some vagaries in the system which seems to treat younger persons more harshly. So what is the upper range? What is the score to which one should aspire?.

[GrannyGiala]

These scores are not accurate.  Am an 80 year old woman with pancreatic cancer, who had a whipple procedure and  just completed a 5 month course of chemotherapy, heavy duty. I can barely walk  a mile a day at a 16 minute pace. Aside from being a non smoker, non drinker who eats healthy, no processed food and no salt, and used to jog 8-10 miles a day, and prays and does meditation, and am slim, I am basically a couch potato. (I do have a fairly low blood pressure without medication, like 90/60.)

i should have a score of maybe -12: but am in the 40-44 range each and every time. Am hoping to increase my walking and go back to jogging soon, but some days I can barely do a half mile. So where do a I get these scores?

ps. Have used several Fitbit so it’s not the device.

[GrannyGiala]

Hey. Except that my BMI is about 20, and I have kept a lot of my muscles, lord knows why, you so far surpass me it is sort of sad. My 40-44 should be twenty points lower, couch potato that I am. You sound in great shape, so why care what your numbers are? 

of course losing weight would probably make your numbers astronomically high.