Fitness Testing

Jen here,

Yesterday Erin and I spent the afternoon at the Pacific Institute of Sport Excellence (PISE). As part of our carding status, we underwent three and a half hours of fitness testing. The process was hilarious, humbling, and daunting. The outcome, however, will be rigorous and focused training plans which we will follow throughout the spring and summer. They will allow us to work to attain peak fitness for our World Cup events. In essence, we will be spending the foreseeable future "blasting it to the max" as they say. And blast it we did. Between push up, pull up, squat, and plank tests we managed to generate enough lactic acid to run a car battery. Fortunately we were able to keep our lunches in our tummies, but not all were so lucky. When not pushing and pulling, we lined up for skin fold tests and "girth measurements," my favourite. Basically, the lovely gentleman in the picture above, James, would systematically jiffy marker us, poke us, pinch us, and then then run a tape measure around various parts of our anatomies. I must say that James was far more professional than I was: he would diligently take notes on the amount of granny fat on the back of my arm while I made awkward jokes and laughed nervously in anticipation of what comes next. Thank you to James and Megan, our intrepid fitness testers! We look forward to the fitness plan and our next batch of tests!