Test 01
Grip Strength
Dynamometer, both hands, read against age-and-sex norms. The two-second test with decades of signal.
Catalyst Performance
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Pillar 04 of 04
Muscle is the material. The heart is the engine. Stability is the control. Strength is what they add up to.
A barbell loads plates as you scroll while a grip meter fills, representing grip strength and movement pattern testing.
The other three pillars build the machine.
Strength is the machine at work.
It is what independence is made of.
Illustrative
Why it matters
Grip strength is one of the strongest predictors of all-cause mortality ever identified, tracked across 17 countries. Not because grip itself saves you, but because it is an honest proxy for total-body strength.
Strength is the pillar you feel every day: stairs, luggage, the floor and back up again. It is what keeps the last decades self-directed.
Grip strength predicts all-cause mortality across 17 countries
Leong et al., 2015 · The Lancet · PURE study
The Catalyst Healthspan Assessment · What we measure
Test 01
Dynamometer, both hands, read against age-and-sex norms. The two-second test with decades of signal.
Test 02
Split squat, shoulder press, lat pulldown. Load and form scored separately, both sides counted.
Scored against age-and-sex norms
25% of your Healthspan Score
Re-measured every 16 weeks at the Checkpoint
How we train it
The score
Equal weight, by design. No pillar can carry another. Four scores combine into one Healthspan Score out of 10.
All four pillars, 60 minutes, Manulife Tower.
Or preview the system in 3 minutes with the free Healthspan Audit