Investigated: Anxiety-inducing fitness test purports to tell you how long you’ll live.
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It seems a simple enough challenge: Sit down on the floor and get back up without the help of your hands or knees. Try it, though, and you might discover it’s not as easy as it sounds.
This “sitting-rising” exercise was designed to predict mortality in middle-aged and older people. The test was devised by a team led by Claudio Gil Araújo, a Brazilian physician and researcher in exercise and sports medicine, and published in the European Journal of Cardiovascular Prevention in 2012. It resurfaces periodically in media outlets or online, causing widespread alarm regarding mortality among the many people (of all ages) who can’t seem to get themselves off the ground. We decided to find out whether that worry is warranted.
Source: WAPO
My Comments:
This is a pretty interesting test. I am able to do it now, but I am not really sure what that really means. And I certainly don’t have the flexibility to get up like the female in the video.
