From age 60, five sit-to-stands slower than 11.4 s (60s), 12.6 s (70s) or 14.8 s (80s) is worse than average
What is a normal 5 times sit-to-stand time?
The finding
Reference times are 11.4 s at 60–69, 12.6 s at 70–79 and 14.8 s at 80–89; slower than these is worse than average.
- Authors
- Bohannon RW
- Published
- Perceptual and Motor Skills 103(1):215–22 · 2006
- Evidence
- Read in the primary source; numbers checked.
- Source
- doi.org/10.2466/pms.103.1.215-222
How it was studied
Descriptive meta-analysis of 13 papers (14 studies) in people aged 60 and over.
What it does not show
Full text not read, so confidence intervals and spread are not verified. The pooled studies differ in chair height, arm use and whether timing stops on the fifth stand or the fifth sit.
What Longstanding does with it
The app’s 60+ medians are exactly these times; the spread around them is estimated, which the app says. The "get out of a low chair without hands" goal targets 12 s (men) or 12.5 s (women) at 85, faster than this 80s reference.