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What is Catalyst Healthspan Assessment?
Our 4-Pillar Assessment, the baseline every Catalyst client begins with. The first 60-min session is free and yours to keep.
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Our 4-Pillar Assessment, the baseline every Catalyst client begins with. The first 60-min session is free and yours to keep.
Quick answer
Our 4-Pillar Assessment, the baseline every Catalyst client begins with. The first 60-min session is free and yours to keep.
The Catalyst Healthspan Assessment is the entry point. Sixty minutes in studio, four pillars measured against the standards that predict how well you age. The full Healthspan Report is yours to keep, in print and in the Catalyst training app, whether you train with us or not.
Most gyms don't assess, or they measure body weight and a few rep maxes and call it a baseline. That gives you an opinion, not a programme. Without measured starting points across the systems that actually matter, the work is built on guesswork.
The four pillars are drawn from peer-reviewed exercise science, longevity research, and orthopaedic screening. Each is a proxy for a domain that independently predicts long-term healthspan. Together they form the diagnostic the programme is built off.
Body Composition. Skeletal Muscle Index (SMI) and Waist-to-Height Ratio (WHtR). SMI is your protective lean muscle relative to height, one of the strongest predictors of longevity and independence. WHtR captures abdominal fat distribution, the metabolic risk that BMI misses entirely.
Cardiorespiratory Fitness. Heart Rate Recovery via a 3-minute step test. HRR is one of the strongest all-cause mortality predictors in the literature, captured precisely in three minutes without a metabolic cart, repeatable every 16 weeks without burning the back half of your morning.
Stability. Y-Balance Test, lower quarter. A measure of dynamic balance, joint control, and asymmetry under load. Falls are the leading cause of injury death after 65; stability is the system that keeps you upright as the decades stack.
Strength. Grip strength plus three Movement Pattern Assessments (pulling, pressing, squatting). Grip alone is one of the strongest mortality predictors ever identified. Movement-pattern strength is what carries groceries, climbs stairs, and catches you when you slip.
Your four pillar scores combine into one Healthspan Score (0-10). The composite is the headline; the pillars are the diagnosis. The training programme prioritises whichever pillar is furthest behind, then re-tests at the 16-week Checkpoint to confirm the protocol is moving the right number.
Long enough for measurable adaptation; short enough to course-correct before drift becomes habit. Your Healthspan Score trend is the artefact, not a new test each cycle.
The assessment is free. The Healthspan Report is yours to keep regardless. There is no commitment until the report is in your hands and you decide what comes next.
If you want to estimate where you stand before booking, take the free Healthspan Audit. It uses the same four-pillar 0 to 10 scale, takes 3 minutes on a phone, and lands a personalised report in your inbox. The studio measurement remains the gold standard; the audit is the doorway.
Walkthrough video
A two-minute walkthrough of what happens during your free 60-minute Catalyst Healthspan Assessment, body composition scan, 3-minute step test, Y-Balance lower-quarter test, and grip + Movement Pattern Strength Assessment. Filmed in our Manulife Tower studio.
The deliverable
After your free 60-minute Catalyst Healthspan Assessment, you receive your full Healthspan Report, yours to keep, in print and in our app, whether you train with us or not.
The deliverable
After your free 60-minute Catalyst Healthspan Assessment, you receive your full Healthspan Report, yours to keep, in print and in our app, whether you train with us or not.
Before you book
The 60-minute studio measurement is the gold standard. The free 12-question Healthspan Audit is the doorway. Same four pillars, same 0 to 10 scale, lands a personalised report in your inbox.
Take the Healthspan Audit →One package, all services
Catalyst sells personal training in packages, paid upfront. Your sessions can be used across personal training, sports massage, nutrition coaching, and recovery work. No separate packages needed. See pricing →
Frequently asked, this service
Q. 01
Sixty minutes, in studio at Manulife Tower, with one of our coaches. We measure four pillars in this order: body composition (Skeletal Muscle Index plus Waist-to-Height Ratio), cardiorespiratory fitness (Heart Rate Recovery via a 3-minute step test), stability (Y-Balance lower-quarter), and strength (Grip plus three Movement Pattern Assessments). You walk out with the printed Healthspan Score Report in your hand, and a digital copy in the Catalyst training app.
Q. 02
No. The assessment is calibrated to where you are, not where you think you should be. Members complete it in their first month of training and in their fourth decade in the gym. The grip and strength tests progress through pre-set load brackets, so the protocol meets your current capacity. Wear training clothes and bring water.
Q. 03
InBody is the gold standard for BIA (bioelectrical impedance analysis) measurement, and BIA gives us total body fat, visceral plus subcutaneous, not just the subcutaneous layer that skinfold calipers can reach. We want a more honest, more holistic body composition reading. The second reason is consistency. Caliper measurements vary significantly with the operator's skill, the same client can read very differently across two trainers using the same calipers. We re-measure every 16 weeks at the Checkpoint, so consistency is the whole game. InBody removes the operator variable.
Q. 04
Yes. The 60-minute assessment is free, the printed Healthspan Score Report is yours to keep, and there is no commitment until the report is in your hands. We run the assessment as the entry point to our personal training because we'd rather you decide based on your own data than on a sales conversation.
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