Sports Medicine Blog

This NYT article reviews some recent studies that determine a person's "fitness age" using an online calculator. A physician/triathlete contacted the developer of the calculator and recommended that the Norwegian group study the athletes entered in the 'Senior Olympic Games" Almost all athletes participated and the average difference between chronological age and fitness age was 25 years! The group is still working on parsing out data to see if endurance sports - like swimming and running - have lower fitness ages than other sports. The article includes a link to the online fitness calculator.

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/0...&smprod=nytnow

Cathy Fedako