Last month we talked about play span.
This is doing what you want,
When you want to do it,
For as long as you want.
Now we take a step further and look into standards we can meet to achieve true play span for decades to come!
This new concept is called decade decathlon .
Centenarian Decathlon certainly is an unusual term, but while reading a new book by Peter Attia I learned more about PlaySpan with the help of what he called Centenarian Decathlon.
Peter describes centenarian decathlon as physical tasks you will want to be able to do for the rest of your life. This is right in our wheelhouse Rockstars and Headliners! As I have talked about before his concept that he has developed with his clients about aging, health, power, strength, capability as we age and how to have energy to last all day. We as humans, as people and those in our retirement years and ones who are 40 like me need to think about what we will be doing at different decades of our lives whether that be 60, 70, 80, 90 or even 100 years old.
Certainly not something new for us here and Rockstar Fitness and for my clients. PlaySpan is about setting goals and standards of strength to meet at 60, 70, 90 100 so we can play with grandkids, lift a grandchild over our head, ride a bike to the grocery store, hike 2-mile steep trail, surf at 80, throw the shot put at 65 or play pickleball in the Senior Games at 100.
Cool fact:
The record for the 100 meter dash for women of 100 and up is 41 seconds.
A goal of mine? Nope…is this an important goal for everyone? Not at all, but maybe this is yours.
Cool facts aside…a really fun one I would I say is we should all have standards or bench marks to look at to keep us going, keep us strong, keep us visualize, and keep us healthy to Play as we age.
What are some examples of strength based standards we may choose for ourselves to make sure we can build PlaySpan for when we are 100?
- Hike 1.5 miles on a hilly trail
- Get Up off the floor under your own power, using a max of one arm support
- Pick up a child from the floor
- Carry 2 5lbs. bags of groceries 5 blocks
- Lift a 20 lbs. suitcase in an overhead compartment on a plane
- Balance on 1 leg for Thirty Seconds, eyes open….**Big Bonus eyes closed**
- Climb 4 flights of stairs in 3 minutes
- Open a jar with your bare hands!
- Do 30 consecutive jumps with a jump rope…skips-a Lou are ok 🙂
This is a great place to stop and let you think of what is important to you and what items are going to be on your list of strength based activities to keep your PlaySpan going at 70.80.90…or 100+!
See you next week for part 2 of how to reach PlaySpan and how to be a Centenarian Decathlon human!
-Jake Cheney
Rockstar Fitness, LLC.
References:
“Outlive. The Science and Art of Longevity”
Peter Attia, MD. with Bill Gifford.