How can I measure my fitness at home without any instruments?
I need to measure my fitness, so I wanted to know the following things:
What items should be considered when determining if a person is completely fit.
What tests are available to calculate the areas from question one.
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I would say how you recover tells you everything about your fitness and with that in mind:
Your resting heart rate (and how quickly you can get back to it) should tell you a lot about your fitness and you can measure if by taking your own pulse. You might need a watch though so it might be cheating the no instrument specification you laid out there.
See above.
For 1) and 2) I would recommend the bleep test. Its the standard used by the British armed forced and police among others. It only requires a cd of the test.
What should be considered when determining if a person is completely fit.
aerobic fitness
strength fitness
flexibility
recovery
What tests are available to calculate the areas from question one.
The President's challenge - www.adultfitnesstest.org/ - which takes aerobic, physical and flexibility into cosnderation
United States Marine Corps Physical Fitness Test - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Marine_Corps_Physical_Fitness_Test
As pointed out by Meade, there are military and government tests that try to encapsulate most areas of fitness (aerobic, strength, agility). I would argue that "balance" should be another area, but I'm not seeing this one covered under many of these tests. In summary, these appear to be capture enough aspects of fitness that they should be considered.
Here are some others in addition to what Meade pointed out, here is a reference for several other branches of military (US Army, US Navy, Coast Guard, etc): www.stewsmith.com/linkpages/pftstandards.htm
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