What Condition Is Your Conditioning In?

July, 1982

After reviewing current sports-medicine research and literature--as well as consulting many of the top practitioners in the sports-medicine field--we arrived at a sort of sweaty Top 40. Taking six factors--strength, flexibility, endurance, calorie consumption, muscular definition and eye-hand coordination--into account and assuming the frequency and duration of all workouts to be equal, we rated various forms of exercise. The results, placed here on a 100-point scale, are a blend; they reflect n...