- You will complete multiple fitness tests to measure your strength, flexibility, balance and endurance. To measure your hand and forearm muscle strength, you will squeeze and release your hand on a handgrip tool. You will also complete a 6-minute walk test to measure your endurance. To complete this test, you will walk as fast as you can in an indoor hallway for 6 minutes. The distance you walk will be recorded. To measure your flexibility, you will do a sit-and-reach test (reaching in front of you) and a back scratch test (reaching behind your back). To assess your lower body strength, we will record how many times you can stand up from a chair and sit back down in 30 seconds. To assess your upper body strength, we will measure how many arm curls you can do with a dumbbell weight in 30 seconds. To measure your agility and balance, we will time how long it takes for you to get up from a chair, walk around a cone that is 8 feet away from you, and sit back down again.