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Longstanding

A quiet longevity benchmark

Decide what you want to do at 85. Work backwards.

Ten field tests, re-tested every quarter. Each result is read against published norms for your age and sex, and against the line you need to be on today to still do those things at 85.

See where you stand

Coming soon to iPhone and Android

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Example · age 52 · male norms · median of 9 scored tests

Three of eight tests are on or ahead of the line for 85. Farmer carry needs the most attention: it is 63 m short of where the line is today.

Single-leg stand · eyes closed

Ahead

14 sP83

Grip strength

On line

47 kgP52

Farmer carry

Pay attention

60 mP40 · est.

How it works

Built on the centenarian decathlon idea: name the physical tasks you want at the end of life, then work back to the level they need today. Where the idea comes from.

  1. Choose what you want to do at 85.

    Sixteen goals, from getting up off the floor with one hand to hiking 5 km with 300 m of climb. Each maps to a test. When two goals share a test, the harder one sets the line.

  2. Take a baseline of ten field tests.

    About 40 minutes, and you can spread it over several days. Fixed protocols and built-in timers, so a re-test in three months measures the same thing. The baseline is free.

  3. Re-test every quarter.

    Every 13 weeks, with at most three reminders. Each result is read against age and sex norms and against your own line. One glance says which tests are behind and what to do about it.

Goals screen, My decathlon: a checklist of age-85 goals such as catching a rail after a slip and carrying grocery bags up three flights.
Today screen with a standing of 70 and the next quarterly re-test.

The line, not the leaderboard

Your goal at 85 sits at some percentile among 85-year-olds. Your line at every earlier age is the value at that same percentile for that age. Stay on it, and you arrive at 85 still able to do the thing.

Decline speeds up late in life, so the margin has to be built early. In the same people over time, VO₂max fell 3–6% per decade in their 20s and over 20% per decade from their 70s.

Every number is read against your own line and published norms. Never against other people.

Goal at 85

Pick up a 15 kg child from a squat: 30 kg grip.

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Required grip in kg by age, for a man of 40. Computed by the app’s engine from the Dodds 2014 centiles; the target sits at P53 among 85-year-olds.

Inside the app

Dark, calm, one number per screen. Made for a glance between quarters and for sweaty hands mid-session.

  • Today screen: a standing of 70 in a thin ring, a one-sentence insight naming the test that needs attention, and the next re-test date.

    Today

    One standing, one sentence, the next re-test.

  • Backcast screen for dead hang: goal at 85, now, need and gap, and the required line by decade from 32 to 85.

    Backcast

    Where you need to be at every decade.

  • Protocol screen for dead hang: three setup steps, how it is scored, and the training-band labels.

    Protocol

    The same steps every quarter.

  • Timer screen: a large ring timer for a dead hang attempt, with last result, best today and the line.

    Timer

    Tap the ring to stop. Made for sweaty hands.

  • History screen for grip strength: a line of results over two years with change per quarter.

    History

    Your own trend, not the population curve.

  • Quarterly report: overall percentile, tests on line, tests improved, and a table of every test with trend arrows.

    Quarterly report

    Every test against last quarter.

  • Training focus: one cue per test that is behind the line, with dose and time.

    Training focus

    One cue per gap. No program to buy.

Honest precision

Every percentile names its source table. Where no clinical table exists, the number says “estimated”. Where the evidence stops, so do we.

Sources on every result

Grip against Dodds 2014, balance against Springer 2007, sit-to-stand against Bohannon 2006. Dead hang, farmer carry and stairs have no clinical norms, so their percentiles are labelled estimated. Zone 2 is a share of a 150-minute guideline, never a percentile.

Where the evidence stops

Grip strength is linked to survival in millions of people, but no trial shows that raising it adds years. There are no published adult norms for the dead hang. Two respected VO₂max tables disagree by 6–9 mL/kg/min in people in their 70s. Each study page says what it does not show.

What it does not do

  • No camera or pose detection.
  • No leaderboard and no social feed.
  • No account and no server for your data.
  • No streaks, badges or nagging.
  • No training program to buy.

Pricing

Your baseline is free. Everything after it is a single unlock. No account, no upsell inside.

Baseline

Free

Onboarding, the full baseline session of ten tests, and a percentile for every result.

Lifetime

$29once

Pay once. Unlimited quarterly re-tests and reminders, the backcast line for every goal, history, quarterly reports, share cards, and CSV export and import.

Yearly

$19a year

The same unlock, renewed each year until you cancel. A year covers four quarterly re-tests.

US prices. The app is not in the stores yet.

Questions

Coming soon to iPhone and Android.

Until then, enter a few results and see your percentiles and your line, using the same engine as the app.