Speaker 1: 0:01

Hello and welcome back to another episode of Train for a Great Life. A great life should not only be fulfilling and full of joy and happiness and relationships, but it should be something that hopefully lasts for a long time, with a lot of quality in those years, and so that's where we're going to go with this one quality in those years, and so that's where we're going to go with this one. Back in March of 2024, I was at a mastermind meetup in Las Vegas and there was a presentation on the idea of well, it was called Zenith Zones, which got into like a whole another topic with it, but I'm going to focus on the first two parts. So, predicting lifespan and health span okay, so follow me here. Your lifespan is an estimate of the amount of years, the time that you're going to spend on this earth, and the amount of health span is the predicted amount of time that you'll be healthy and be able to do things, and not have this like marginal time where you're spending it not able to do things, maybe kept alive by medications, machines, surgeries and and whatnot. Right, reduced quality of life. So I have my data from March 2024. So the health sorry, the lifespan is basically an insurance form. Right, it's the same type of thing that insurance company is going to have you do for them to make you insurable and give you your premiums and whatnot.

Speaker 1: 1:46

So my estimated years was 88. Okay, that's great. There could still be something that gets me before then, not the point. Okay, based on everything that I input into there. Okay, my health span so there's limiters to this. My health span so there's limiters to this. Uh, with this one, this is so there's. There's all sorts of habits and lifestyle choices that are going to influence your lifespan, your health span.

Speaker 1: 2:14

There are four metrics that you put, we put in for this. One is vo2 max. Two is squat strength. Three is deadlift strength. Four is overhead pressing strength. That's it, okay, and this will give you a pretty good idea. Um, so for me, my um, my sort of like limiters there, basically the numbers that I put in, it gave me a multiplier of 0.97, 0.96, 0.96, 0.96, 0.96. Okay, so it takes an average of your strength, which gives me a projected health span of 81.95 years. Pretty solid, right, my habits weren't the best, though. I mean, I will be honest about it. There's things that were just that weren't. They could have been better. Right, they're not terrible, but they could have been better.

Speaker 1: 3:15

I did this exercise again very recently, within the last couple of days, and I was pretty happy with the results. So my, I didn't remember all my answers, I just answered it honestly in terms of the insurance form and it shot out a lifespan of 93 years. So that is an increase of five years of lifespan. Great, right, I know that my fitness is up my strength number and basically everything, all of my performances up in the gym. I'm doing things I haven't done in a long time and still it doesn't put those things at quite an elite level measured by the tables where you're finding where you fit. But it does move me up a little bit. My VO2 max moves up a little bit, my squat press and deadlift all moved up a little bit and that gave me a projected health span of 88.41 years. So that's a difference from the last time of six and a half years. So not only did that increase because my lifespan increased, but actually my markers of how much good healthy time I will have in whatever lifespan it is, increased as well. So that was really cool to see and I knew that was going to be the case, just with how things are trending.

Speaker 1: 4:47

But I was really curious and like, when you actually, you know, have a year um, you know a year and a bit in between those, those, those tests and that data, um, plus multiple years of my life, I will take it, uh. And plus multiple quality of time, uh, even more dramatically, I will absolutely take that. That that's what I'm interested in, um. So the, the strength tables are pretty straightforward. The vo2 max is one that is a little bit more nuanced to get. So I mean, you can actually have these tests done.

Speaker 1: 5:23

Uh, if you have a watch that tracks some of this stuff, it's going to give you a pretty good predictor. Garmin's will do it, I can't remember if Apple watches do it, but it's not the hardest thing to find predicted right. So for me, mine moved up a little bit based on where everything's at right now. So if you do find this interesting, if you're still listening to this, I would be happy to send you the forms, like the links to these things. It's all free, it's no big deal to do, and I'll send you the Google Doc with the table along with it so you can get your numbers and hopefully like what you see, and if you don't, well, it's time to get to work, because we can absolutely influence and impact these things. You know, maybe sometimes more than people even realize. So with that, I will see you in the gym.