You consider your body as a well-oiled machine that occasionally needs fine tuning by medical diagnostic equipment. As a triathlete, your body translates what your mind wants to do during grueling hours of practice as well as the main event. Be it running, swimming, or cycling, your muscles take their cue from your brain as they receive signals through your nerves. Optimum performance comes from a body that is well maintained and cared for. Aside from the regular consultations from your doctor, you regularly undergo a series of tests using various medical diagnostic equipment to determine your body's ability to achieve its peak and maintain it for long stretches of time. There are cardiovascular tests that measure aerobic endurance, strength tests, and flexibility tests to pass with flying colors. You expect nothing but the best in yourself.
An athlete's time is limited. In sports, it is rare for athletes to be competing professionally into their forties. Most of them retire in their thirties due to various injuries and other health-related reasons. This is the reason why every time you are asked to see your doctor for some tests, you promptly appear at the doctor's office with no excuses. You cannot even remember how many medical diagnostic equipment you have tried. Even with science trying to cure and solve almost any ailment, there is still no cure for aging. One of the things that you fear in life is to be physically incapacitated. It is foolish to think that you will live up to a hundred and still be as healthy as you are now but you will try to live with the best possible quality of life at any age. You realize that with proper diet, exercise and the guidance of your doctor, it can be done. So when the doctor tells you to undergo tests that will hook you up to medical diagnostic equipment, you comply. You have been poked, prodded, turned, pulled, pushed, and stretched. You walked, ran, jumped, crouched, reached to your toes, and bent from the sides, among other things. As long as the results favor your continued ability to compete, they will not hear a single complaint.
The results of the tests are out and you wait with bated breath. You know you are in the best shape of your life and you do not have anything to worry about. However, your concern is more about preventive maintenance. Your doctor advised you to improve your flexibility. Though you did not fail the flexibility tests, your form while doing the tests should be corrected to relieve joint stress and increase tendon flexibility. You are willing to work on your form and retake the test again next month.
