Welcome to the quick and dirty tips to slim down and shape up.

I'm Brock Armstrong. I'm the Get Fit Guy.

And this is part two of the best and most interesting ways that you can test and quantify your fitness level.

In part one, which I suggest you go back and listen to before you listen to the rest of this one,

we discovered that occasionally we fit folks need more than a bathroom scale to show us where

we're at in our athletic endeavors.

And that often means that we need to do some sort of fitness test.

We also looked at what makes a test useful and reliable while we examined several fitness tests

that ranged from the Canadian forces to the Navy SEALs to a lab V-O-2 Max test and to the

grueling Seattle Fire Department's candidate physical ability test.

Now in part two, I'm going to continue the examination of a few other fitness

tests, but I'm also going to reveal what I think is the best and most useful test for those of us

who are interested in being awesome in all areas of life. All right, let's dive back into the

examination with a simple one that's called the

vertical jump test. This test is used specifically to determine your leg muscle strength, and it's

another one of the tests that you can easily do at home. This test is sometimes called the

vertical leap test or the sergegent Jump, and that's because

it was named after the physical educator, Dudley Sargent.

Now, to perform the test, you attempt to reach the highest point on a wall by jumping

straight up in the air with your arm reaching over your head.

Yep, that's all. You can have a few tries and then

either take the average of those tries or choose the highest jump, and it's up to you. Once you can

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