If you want to know how strong and fit you are, forget the fancy gym machines and the complicated fitness trackers, and forget comparing yourself to your younger self. The real measure of functional ...

The sit-to-stand test takes just 30 seconds to complete, but its results can provide profound insights into your health.

The Sit-to-Stand Test is a simple, science-backed way to check your mobility, strength, and balance in under a minute without a gym or gadgets.

One simple version of this test takes just 30 seconds. You will need a chair with a straight back and no armrests and a ...

Soldiers trying to earn the Army Ranger tab will have to do more challenging functional fitness exercises starting day one.

In fact, it’s a test used by medical professionals as a quick way of evaluating overall health and fitness. Commonly known as the ’sit-to-stand test’, it became popular with doctors during ...

1 School of Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey 2 School of Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation, Abant Izzet Baysal University, Ankara Background: The sit and reach ...

Methods: Before treatment, each of 11 male subjects performed the sit and reach test. The treatment consisted of either massage of the hamstring muscle group (both legs, total time about 15 minutes) ...

The sit-to-stand test takes just 30 seconds to complete, but its results can provide profound insights into your health. Getting out of a chair may seem too trivial a task to pay much attention to ...