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Sitting rising test. I can't. Can you?
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I slipped on the floor and fractured my earlobe.9
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I've seen this test used as part of a overall assessment and feel that a normal person should have (and try to maintain) this ability for as long into their aging years as possible. As far as determining life expectancy, I'm not sure how accurate that is, but it probably correlates to elderly people falling and being frail.0
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I haven't been able to any of this in probably at least 40 years. Guess I'm screwed.2
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I'm 44yo. It was a little ugly/wobbly, but I did it. I'm not sure if I'd be at a 9.5 or 10.0
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I think it's getting center of gravity over your feet. I just coached my bf to do it. He can out run, jump higher and squat lower than me but had trouble with this sit/stand test. It's easy for me. I wonder if it comes down to how you train.0
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lololol I did it easily but maybe because I do yoga.0
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I am fitter and stronger than I've ever been but I still can't do this pigging thing
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oQIbffQj2xM
Is there any truth in this being a good test of "fitness"
I know I cant right now,I blew a glute muscle(hubby called it an As* gasket).4 -
I think it's getting center of gravity over your feet. I just coached my bf to do it. He can out run, jump higher and squat lower than me but had trouble with this sit/stand test. It's easy for me. I wonder if it comes down to how you train.Noreenmarie1234 wrote: »lololol I did it easily but maybe because I do yoga.
I think it has to do with being female's center of balance. Like the trick with pulling a chair out while being bent over with your head against a wall. Flexibility as well as certain styles of yoga would seem to help.0 -
I get that falls are a considerable danger for the elderly. But considering the most common causes of death, how does a test that relies on your leg strength, balance, and flexibility predict your likelihood of heart attack, stroke, and cancer in the next 6 years? Confessions - I struggled to get up. And I was too lazy to read the linked study,3
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I think it's getting center of gravity over your feet. I just coached my bf to do it. He can out run, jump higher and squat lower than me but had trouble with this sit/stand test. It's easy for me. I wonder if it comes down to how you train.Noreenmarie1234 wrote: »lololol I did it easily but maybe because I do yoga.
I think it has to do with being female's center of balance. Like the trick with pulling a chair out while being bent over with your head against a wall. Flexibility as well as certain styles of yoga would seem to help.
IMO if you can do an A2G squat, you can likely do this test. Don't take my advice though, because I'm dead.1 -
I go down kinda hard lol. I need one hand to come up.0
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My knee with its multiple injuries over the last 50 years pretty much makes this impossible for me. I guess I am going to die in the next six years.
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I think it's getting center of gravity over your feet. I just coached my bf to do it. He can out run, jump higher and squat lower than me but had trouble with this sit/stand test. It's easy for me. I wonder if it comes down to how you train.Noreenmarie1234 wrote: »lololol I did it easily but maybe because I do yoga.
I think it has to do with being female's center of balance. Like the trick with pulling a chair out while being bent over with your head against a wall. Flexibility as well as certain styles of yoga would seem to help.
IMO if you can do an A2G squat, you can likely do this test. Don't take my advice though, because I'm dead.
My knee prevents me from doing that without causing further damage as well.0 -
I get that falls are a considerable danger for the elderly. But considering the most common causes of death, how does a test that relies on your leg strength, balance, and flexibility predict your likelihood of heart attack, stroke, and cancer in the next 6 years? Confessions - I struggled to get up. And I was too lazy to read the linked study,
A Canadian study found a correlation between the inability to do sit ups and an increased mortality risk:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11984288
So putting together the Brazilian and the Canadian results, it seems that is not the flexibility, but the core strength that matters.
Independently from the alleged precision of the test, I don't find so outrageous the idea that if you are weak you are also more likely to die earlier.2 -
I think it's getting center of gravity over your feet. I just coached my bf to do it. He can out run, jump higher and squat lower than me but had trouble with this sit/stand test. It's easy for me. I wonder if it comes down to how you train.Noreenmarie1234 wrote: »lololol I did it easily but maybe because I do yoga.
I think it has to do with being female's center of balance. Like the trick with pulling a chair out while being bent over with your head against a wall. Flexibility as well as certain styles of yoga would seem to help.
what.1 -
Help!!!
I've fallen and I can't get up!!!3 -
rainbowbow wrote: »I think it's getting center of gravity over your feet. I just coached my bf to do it. He can out run, jump higher and squat lower than me but had trouble with this sit/stand test. It's easy for me. I wonder if it comes down to how you train.Noreenmarie1234 wrote: »lololol I did it easily but maybe because I do yoga.
I think it has to do with being female's center of balance. Like the trick with pulling a chair out while being bent over with your head against a wall. Flexibility as well as certain styles of yoga would seem to help.
what.
I've always seen it done with head against the wall.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MW0ZTvRCS1o 3 -
rileysowner wrote: »I think it's getting center of gravity over your feet. I just coached my bf to do it. He can out run, jump higher and squat lower than me but had trouble with this sit/stand test. It's easy for me. I wonder if it comes down to how you train.Noreenmarie1234 wrote: »lololol I did it easily but maybe because I do yoga.
I think it has to do with being female's center of balance. Like the trick with pulling a chair out while being bent over with your head against a wall. Flexibility as well as certain styles of yoga would seem to help.
IMO if you can do an A2G squat, you can likely do this test. Don't take my advice though, because I'm dead.
My knee prevents me from doing that without causing further damage as well.
Does that mean people are 5 times more likely to die from a knee injury?
OMG...:)1 -
bahahaha. I thought for sure I could do this. I CANNOT get my 40 inch *kitten* up off the floor without touching the ground. Don't care. I can deadlift almost 300lbs4
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I think it's getting center of gravity over your feet. I just coached my bf to do it. He can out run, jump higher and squat lower than me but had trouble with this sit/stand test. It's easy for me. I wonder if it comes down to how you train.Noreenmarie1234 wrote: »lololol I did it easily but maybe because I do yoga.
I think it has to do with being female's center of balance. Like the trick with pulling a chair out while being bent over with your head against a wall. Flexibility as well as certain styles of yoga would seem to help.
Are you saying I have a big butt? Well, thank you
Brute glute strength0 -
Just did it yesterday morning but it is very difficult0
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I can do it only using my legs. No hands or side of legs involved.
I have to uncross them for the get-up though as a poorly set leg 40 years ago means I can't sit cross legged with my left leg.
Average fitness level, 63 yo so, I better keep doing it.
Don't think it is so much fitness as muscle recruitment, balance, and coordination- something us old dears tend to lose so need to work on.
Probably will get run over by a bus tomorrow.
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I'm speculating that if a senior is able to do this it is a good indication that he or she has remained active which correlates to better health. Also, an injury from a fall can cause an elderly person to decline in overall health, especially if a hip is fractured - I don't know the exact mechanisms involved in that, maybe pneumonia and hospital acquired infections.1
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Easy. But it's really not a fair comparison or test as I've been doing ballet since I was 4.1
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I think it's getting center of gravity over your feet. I just coached my bf to do it. He can out run, jump higher and squat lower than me but had trouble with this sit/stand test. It's easy for me. I wonder if it comes down to how you train.Noreenmarie1234 wrote: »lololol I did it easily but maybe because I do yoga.
I think it has to do with being female's center of balance. Like the trick with pulling a chair out while being bent over with your head against a wall. Flexibility as well as certain styles of yoga would seem to help.
Are you saying I have a big butt? Well, thank you
Brute glute strength
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bahahaha. I thought for sure I could do this. I CANNOT get my 40 inch *kitten* up off the floor without touching the ground. Don't care. I can deadlift almost 300lbs
Wow you are amazing. I am so dang jealous of that number. You don't even want to know my sad excuse of deadlift right now.
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bahahaha. I thought for sure I could do this. I CANNOT get my 40 inch *kitten* up off the floor without touching the ground. Don't care. I can deadlift almost 300lbs
Wow you are amazing. I am so dang jealous of that number. You don't even want to know my sad excuse of deadlift right now.
Whatever. You got the body. We are training with different goals Still, even if I lifted on a program like you, I would NEVER look like that.
And I'm jealous of how much you can eat. I still don't understand it.0 -
I can do it. I did it first with socks on in a tile floor (dumb). Slippy, but got up. Barefoot was much better.
I'd heard of this test. Balance, flexibility & strength are all things that help us age better. I plan on staying active for as long as I can!
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