Fitness Age

[Philly50]

Interesting article in the nytimes this morning about fitness age:

 

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/07/01/older-athletes-have-a-strikingly-young-fitness-age/

 

There's also an online fitness age calculator:

 

https://www.worldfitnesslevel.org/

 

I took the fitness test and found that although I'm in my mid 60s, my fitness age is 12 years younger.

[BaronArtz]

Interesting. I took the test as well. I am 57 years old and have the fitness level of a 22 year old. A life time of being a fencer, working out almost daily and being passionate about what I eat is paying off! And of course ... sex is always the best form of motivation

[+ WmClarke]

Took it. I'm 50 and it said I was at a fitness level of a 75 year-old.

 

Took it again, changed one answer, and now I have the fitness of an "under 20" year old.

 

Classic internet test with regards to validity and reliability.

[Philly50]

Took it. I'm 50 and it said I was at a fitness level of a 75 year-old.

 

Took it again, changed one answer, and now I have the fitness of an "under 20" year old.

 

Classic internet test with regards to validity and reliability.

 

It can only be as valid as the data it receives. Which of your answers was closer to reality?

[+ WmClarke]

It can only be as valid as the data it receives. Which of your answers was closer to reality?

That was the odd thing. It was the "how many times a week do you exercise?" question. I work out 3-4 times a week, but the choices included 2-3, 4 or more. The first time I put 2-3 and the second time I put 4 or more.

 

I didn't really expect one change to provide such widely different answers, but it is an internet quiz and I don't put much stock in such quizzes. I just take them for fun. And to make snarky comments about them in online forums.

[+ Charlie]

The test says I have the fitness level of a 51 year old, which sounds good. However, when my father was 71, his physician told him he had the body of a 40 year old--and less than a year later he was dead.

[maninsoma]

I don't think this quiz has any chance of claiming accuracy since its questions are far too limited. When I was a Blue Shield member, I completed an annual online health assessment which was probably comprehensive enough to provide a "fitness age" but did not do so. Instead it simply ranked various areas in terms of how I compared to my age cohort, i.e., I exercise more than most people, my diet needs improvement, etc.

[Diverdan]

I don't put much stock in these types of surveys. I was to my specialist yesterday and he said I might live to 120... and I told him I didn't want to live that long. His estimate was based on the age at which my ancestors died.... my father at age 70 with a heart attack, but his father died at 96 of "old age" and his grandfather (my great grandfather) also died at age 96 of gangrene as a result of a severe cut to his leg. My mother also lived to be 96. I also have low blood pressure and a low resting heart rate. So, my advise is to skip the online surveys and check your parents, grandparents and great grandparents and see how long they lived and what they died from if you can find that out. That may be your best clue.

[Steven_Draker]

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[+ Charlie]

So, my advise is to skip the online surveys and check your parents, grandparents and great grandparents and see how long they lived and what they died from if you can find that out. That may be your best clue.

I tried this at one point, but my fourteen parents/grandparents/great-grandparents, all of whom died of natural causes, died at a wide range of ages, from 30 to 102. Their mean age at death, and the median age at death, surprisingly, were the same; unnervingly, it was exactly the age I am now.

[Diverdan]

Unless you know the specifics of the "natural causes", it is more difficult to utilize heredity as a major clue to longevity. The fact that you are now at that mean and median ages of their death suggests that you are going to live longer, unless you have major health issues, like heart disease, prostate cancer, etc. My advise to myself and my friends is just to enjoy life at every age, eat and drink in moderation, have a good sex life and smell the roses along the way. Keep your friends and relatives close to you if possible and don't sweat the small stuff !!

[+ Charlie]

Unless you know the specifics of the "natural causes", it is more difficult to utilize heredity as a major clue to longevity. The fact that you are now at that mean and median ages of their death suggests that you are going to live longer, unless you have major health issues, like heart disease, prostate cancer, etc.

In most cases, the "natural cause" was either cancer or heart disease, though one was childbirth (not a problem for me) and another was pneumonia caught during the Blizzard of 1888 in NYC (also highly unlikely for me). I do not have any health problem that Tylenol can't alleviate, but neither did my father, yet he died within four months of developing an aggressive cancer, at the same age that I am now. So I take nothing for granted, and am prepared to go whenever my time comes.

[Diverdan]

Charlie,

I like your attitude, and I feel the same way. I have enjoyed my life thus far, and plan to enjoy what ever is left of it, whether short or long!!

DD

[+ sam.fitzpatrick]

Both of my grandmothers lived to be 99, and my mother is on track to do so as well. One grandfather died at 76 from congestive heart failure caused by smoking (I'm smoke-free) and my father and his father both died of skin cancer (outdoors careers and I'm a desk jockey.)

 

The hardest part of planning for retirement to guessing how long I may live.

[whipped guy]

Well, I just took the test. It says that I have the fitness of an average 43 year old and that my VO2max fitness is 47. Also, I can certainly see how changing one answer can skew things one way or another

 

As everyone now knows I just retired. I'm 64. Does this mean that I need to unretire and work another 21 years to reach the fitness of an average 64 year old!

 

I'm not sure how accurate the test is, but at least it says I'm younger than I actually am. I certainly feel younger than most people my age. Heck one escort told me that I was the same age as his father and he could not imagine his dad doing the stuff we were going. Well not the actually stuff, but the physicality of it all.

 

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[tyro]

Well, I just took the test. It says that I have the fitness of an average 43 year old send that my fitness age is 47. Also, I can certainly see how changing one answer can skew things one way or another

 

As everyone now knows I just retired. I'm 64. Does this mean that I need to unretire and work another 21 to reach the fitness of an average 64 year old!

 

I'm not sure how accurate the test is, but at least it says I'm younger than I actually am. I certainly feel younger than most people my age. Heck one escort told me that I was the same age as his father and he could not imagine his dad doing the stuff we were going. Well not the actually stuff, but the physicality of it all.

 

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May I look HALF so good at 64! Or 47. Or...43...

T

[Samai139]

http://www.upload.ee/image/3876349/lifespans.png

[Samai139]

Any guesses on what will happen in the next 100, 200 years? Is a decline coming? Or will it level off? Or continue going Up?

[Steven_Draker]

Any guesses on what will happen in the next 100, 200 years? Is a decline coming? Or will it level off? Or continue going Up?

 

If you believe the predictions ... it's going up.

 

http://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/img/posts/2014/09/ChartForPhone_Easterbrook-1/1fb623aff.png

[Lookin]

Well, if I'm reading that graph right, most of us should still be here in 2215. I wonder if the discussions will change all that much. http://www.boytoy.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif

 

http://static.leonardo.it/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/04/large_393217457.jpg

 

Why the hell did I pay up front? . . . . Ask Marylander, he'll know.

Didn't that guy pull that before? . . . . He's still on Time-out.

[AdamSmith]

[whipped guy]

Well, if I'm reading that graph right, most of us should still be here in 2215. I wonder if the discussions will change all that much. http://www.boytoy.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif

 

http://static.leonardo.it/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2014/04/large_393217457.jpg

 

Why the hell did I pay up front? . . . . Ask Marylander, he'll know.

Didn't that guy pull that before? . . . . He's still on Time-out.

The heck with the discussions!

 

Personally I will be looking forward to the pleasures of all the edentulous blowjobs I will be getting!!!

 

Getting that is! With any luck I won't be giving any!

[bigvalboy]

The heck with the discussions!

Personally I will be looking forward to the pleasures of all the edentulous blowjobs I will be getting!!!

 

Be careful what you wish for?

 

http://www.dentaleconomics.com/content/dam/etc/medialib/new-lib/dentaleconomics/print-articles/volume-101/issue-12/56270.res/_jcr_content/renditions/pennwell.web.399.253.jpg

 

[whipped guy]

Be careful what you wish for?

 

http://www.dentaleconomics.com/content/dam/etc/medialib/new-lib/dentaleconomics/print-articles/volume-101/issue-12/56270.res/_jcr_content/renditions/pennwell.web.399.253.jpg

 

I said GETTING... no way I'm planning on GIVING!

 

Still, from what I have heard from what goes on in the Home for the Sexually Deranged you haven't lived until you have experienced a good EB... Eduntulous Blowjob.. And that's what it's called getting EBed!

[Steven_Draker]

Interesting article in the nytimes this morning about fitness age:

 

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/07/01/older-athletes-have-a-strikingly-young-fitness-age/

 

There's also an online fitness age calculator:

 

https://www.worldfitnesslevel.org/

 

I took the fitness test and found that although I'm in my mid 60s, my fitness age is 12 years younger.

 

 

Back to the topic in question: Philly50, I took the test.

 

Result: My fitness age is 20 years old.

 

I train intensively 5 times a week with 3 Body Combat and GRIT group classes.