{"id":1569,"date":"2023-03-15T16:07:27","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T16:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/03\/15\/a-five-second-test-to-see-whether-youre-aging-well\/"},"modified":"2023-03-15T16:07:27","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T16:07:27","slug":"a-five-second-test-to-see-whether-youre-aging-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/03\/15\/a-five-second-test-to-see-whether-youre-aging-well\/","title":{"rendered":"A Five-Second Test to See Whether You&#8217;re Aging Well"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehook.com\/daily_brief\/health-and-fitness\/best-home-quick-fitness-test\">Here<\/a>\u2019s how it works:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Start in a standing position with 10 points<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Sit down into a cross-legged position on the floor<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Rise back up into a standing position<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Simple, right? Only for each time you used a hand, knee or forearm to accomplish the task, you have to subtract a point. If you sat down and stood back up using only your core and leg strength, that\u2019s a perfect 10. The goal is to land around eight points or better.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;\">Your humble correspondent is 73 years of age.&#0160; He used his right hand twice: once to get onto the floor, and once to get up off the floor. So his score is eight points. Now you tell us your age and your score.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s how it works: Start in a standing position with 10 points Sit down into a cross-legged position on the floor Rise back up into a standing position Simple, right? Only for each time you used a hand, knee or forearm to accomplish the task, you have to subtract a point. If you sat down &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/03\/15\/a-five-second-test-to-see-whether-youre-aging-well\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Five-Second Test to See Whether You&#8217;re Aging Well&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-and-fitness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}