Pre-Exercise Evaluation

Pre-Exercise Evaluations

       Pre-Exercise Evaluations are very important before you begin working out. It should be a thorough test including past and current information about you. One of the most important test is a preliminary physical examination that should be performed by a professional qualified examination. This is important because you may be at high risk to injury depending on your current physical standing. The most common components of physical examination include your body weight. Your BMI (body mass index) includes waist girth, body composition, and what percent of body fat is desirable.
       Your BMI is the base test related to all physical examination. Each person carries a different BMI because everyone is physically built different. This is the reason why each person has a different seated, resting, supine, and standing blood pressure. Different factors all play a role in personal blood pressure that is why it is important to know your personal status in every situation. Auscultation of the lungs specifies absences of rales, wheezes, and other breathing sounds . This also reveals your palpation of the cardiac apical impulse, also known as PMI (point of maximum impulse). It is also very important to test your heart. The auscultation of the heart pays specific attention to testing heart murmors, gallops, clicks, and rubs.
        Pre-Exercise evaluations are very important for a few reasons. These tests show you if you are at potential risks for disease, or even if your body is not physically ready to start working out. One of the most common in a person is CVD (Cardio vascular disease). Patients with current CVD are listed as high risk patients. People who currently have CVD before they begin to workout should consider further testing. Other tests could include carotid ultrasound, peripheral vascular studies, chest radiograph, and comprehensive blood chemistry testing to list a few.