- Results and standards
- Functional anchor. Where a neutral reference is shown during testing, it is the applicable functional anchor for that test and, where relevant, the participant’s cohort. It is a reference point, not the line between two bands.
- Red, yellow and green. Red, yellow and green are Systematic category labels, not published clinical cut-offs. Some Sitting-Rising cohorts do not have all three bands because the reference mapping does not produce a distinct range for every category. The bands stay hidden while you are taking a test; you see them with your results.
- No band. A specific Sitting-Rising age and sex cohort has no separate red or no separate green range in the Systematic standards, because the reference mapping does not produce one. It does not mean the participant has no valid score.
- How the tests run
- Fault. Anything that ends a timed test under its rules. On the Wall Sit, for example, the hold ends if you use your hands or arms on your legs, or if you stop.
- Time to task failure. How long you can keep a task going before you can no longer do it to the standard. The dead hang is timed this way: how long you can hang from the bar under your own body weight.
- The capacities
- Isometric endurance. Holding a fixed position against fatigue without moving, as in the Wall Sit's 90-degree hold.
- Rapid force production and landing control. How quickly your legs produce force, and how well you control the landing. The standing broad jump measures both, with a two-second stable landing.
- Loaded locomotion and sustained grip. Carrying on walking efficiently while holding a load, and keeping hold of it without dropping or putting it down. The farmer's carry tests both together.
- Grip strength and support grip. A grip dynamometer measures how hard you can squeeze once. Hanging from a bar measures how long you can hold on. They are related but not the same, which is why grip-strength research is not dead hang evidence.
- How the research is described
- Association. Two things that tend to go together in a study. A study showing that a physical capacity is associated with health outcomes does not, on its own, make a Systematic test a predictor of anyone's lifespan.
- Evidence label. The evidence label describes how the source supports the claim on that page. The five labels are explained on the How we write page.
The Systematic Healthspan Assessment is a physical baseline. It is not a diagnosis, and it does not estimate a biological age, a disease risk or a lifespan.