14 DAY TRIAL // It's the weekend, so we might as well take a break from our routine and have some fun. Otherwise put, let’s take a few minutes to do a very simple exercise and try to figure out whether or not we should invest in a sports car or a house by the beach.
The video below illustrates the so-called sitting-rising test (also known as SRT), which, according to some folks, doctors included, can predict whether a person will live a long and happy live or only has just a few years left, Mirror informs.
The exercise is pretty straightforward: try to sit on the floor and then get up without using your hands for support. If you can perform this very simple task flawlessly, you get 10 points out of 10. Anything you do wrong, i.e. use a hand / knee or lose balance, will cost you 1 point.
Apparently, the exercise is intended to test a person's strength, their flexibility and their ability to balance their own body. Oddly enough, word has it that this one sitting and rising exercise can also predict how much a person is going to live.
Thus, researchers in Brazil say that, having carried out a series of experiments, they found that those who score 3 points or less on this test are 5 times more likely to die in just 6 years than the ones who score at least 8. Those who score 4 to 7 have twice the chances to perish within the next 6 years.
If you ask me, this test is complete mumbo-jumbo. True, it can help to determine a person's strength and flexibility, but I seriously doubt that it can predict life expectation. Then again, like I said, it's Saturday, so we might as well have some fun with it.
