What’s Your Fitness Age?

Many of us don’t feel a day past 21 – yet our bulging waistlines and the wrinkles around our eyes tell a different story.

Now, a test can tell us our ‘fitness age’ – an age based on how fit the body is rather than how many years we have lived.

The calculator, created by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, asks people to enter information such as their gender, height, weight, waist circumference, heart rate and how frequently they exercise.

From this, the university’s Cardiac Exercise Research Group is able to calculate VO2max, a measure of how much oxygen the body is able to take in.

Measured in milliliters of O2 per kilogram of body weight per minute, the researchers say it is ‘the most precise measure of overall cardiovascular fitness’.

It reveals how well the muscle cells can take in oxygen, and how well the lungs and heart can transport oxygen to tissues.

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Comparing average VO2max scores for each age group, the test can reveal our fitness age – and whether it is lower or higher than the number of candles on our last birthday cake.

A new test can tell us our ‘fitness age’ – an age based on how physically fit our bodies are rather than how many years we have lived. In order to calculate this age, it asks people to enter details such as their gender, education, height, weight and exercise

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