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PerformanceSpan Assessment

The PerformanceSpan Assessment — How capable are you right now?

20 short questions across strength, cardiovascular fitness, nutrition and recovery show what is already working and which area to protect and improve first, so you stay capable as you get older.

Free · 20 questions · around 5 minutes · personal result at the end

A woman in her late fifties easily lifting a heavy suitcase into the boot of her car

Strength

Resistance training, muscle and confident everyday lifting.

Cardiovascular fitness

Aerobic base, sustained effort and recovery between efforts.

Nutrition

Protein, minimally processed food, fibre and hydration.

Recovery

Sleep, rest days, stress and adapting to fatigue.

What you’ll discover

  • An overall PerformanceSpan score out of 100.
  • A separate score for each of the four pillars.
  • Your strongest pillar — what is already working.
  • Your priority pillar — the one currently limiting you.
  • A score band and a short personalised recommendation for every pillar.

Why this matters after 50

After 50 the useful question stops being how you look and becomes what you can still do. Strength and cardiovascular fitness protect capability. Nutrition and recovery decide whether training produces energy and resilience or simply fatigue. Keeping those four in reasonable shape is what keeps work, travel, sport, family and independence comfortable for longer.

How to answer

Answer for your typical behaviour over the last four to six weeks, not your best ever week, and not what you intend to start on Monday. An honest snapshot of the present gives you a far more useful result and a baseline worth comparing against later.

What happens at the end

At the end you enter your first name and email, and your full personalised results appear straight away on this page, no waiting for an email. Your details are used to save your results and follow up on this assessment, nothing else.

What it is not

This is a self-assessment of current behaviour and practical capability. It is not a medical examination, a disease-risk predictor, a VO2max or frailty test, a body-composition scan, or a validated clinical instrument.

This is an educational coaching self-assessment based entirely on your own answers. It is not a medical assessment, diagnosis or disease-risk prediction, it is not VO2max, frailty or fitness testing, and it is not a validated clinical instrument. If you have a medical condition, symptoms or any doubt about whether a change is appropriate for you, please speak with your doctor.