Quantify Fitness

07/07/2025

If you’re taking a GLP-1 for weight loss, don’t skip out on strength training! 🏋️‍♂️🦴💪

01/09/2025

“The only reason the body adapts is because there’s a threat to its survival. Your body doesn’t know what year it is and that “threats” aren’t what they used to be. It just knows you’re pushing it harder, and it wants to survive. The goal, from an evolutionary perspective, is to survive a similar threat in the future. If that threat requires you to run 10 miles, then you’re going to improve your aerobic fitness. If the threat requires you to move something heavy, you’ll get stronger.

Whatever type of exercise you choose to do, and wherever you choose to do it, and however many times a week you choose to do it, one detail matters more than anything else if you want the benefits of high-intensity training: Get outside your comfort zone.”

01/09/2025

“The only reason the body adapts is because there’s a threat to its survival. Your body doesn’t know what year it is and that “threats” aren’t what they used to be. It just knows you’re pushing it harder, and it wants to survive. The goal, from an evolutionary perspective, is to survive a similar threat in the future. If that threat requires you to run 10 miles, then you’re going to improve your aerobic fitness. If the threat requires you to move something heavy, you’ll get stronger.

Whatever type of exercise you choose to do, and wherever you choose to do it, and however many times a week you choose to do it, one detail matters more than anything else if you want the benefits of high-intensity training: Get outside your comfort zone."

Pushing yourself a little harder – or a lot – offers life-changing benefits on a cellular level. Learn what’s going on inside and you’ll want to up the intensity.

07/11/2024

If you’ve been coming to Quantify, you know we can help you track your body composition and calculate your metabolic age vs your chronological age.

Well now if you’re one of our Proteus users, you can also track your Power Age. 🦾

Posted • NEW Proteus Test Insights view is here to make understanding your data simpler than ever!

Key features:

➡️ Understand your biological power age

➡️ Get a personalized power ranking so you know exactly how your power compares to your cohort

➡️ View overall insights on your power and acceleration to see if you’re above average, below average, or right on track compared to your cohort

➡️ Cleary track body region progress

➡️ New Power and Acceleration map (radar visual) to help you visualize and understand your training progress compared to you initial and past test results

At Proteus, we’re on a mission to build higher-performing, healthier, and longer-living humans. With this new update, users will have more information at their finger tips than ever to help them make better decisions regarding their body, leading the way for a healthier, happier future.

Happy testing! 🦾 📊✅

** Please note that only users who are 25 and older with profiles that have ‘none/not listed’ designated as their sport and users who have any sport selected and are designated ‘amateur’ for their skill levels will be able to generate a biological power age

07/09/2024

Posted • What happens to power as we age: new learnings from the world’s largest database on multi-planar movement.

See the full report (link in my stories - it’s free after entering your email address) or read the following for a brief summary.

One of the reasons I joined the advisory board was my interest in learning more about power through the lifespan and through rotational movements. This provides incredible value as we know power is a valuable biomarker of healthy aging (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38523229/).

Rotation is also key as many individuals can’t use the typical methods of power testing (vertical jump or force plates) due to musculoskeletal injuries or other limitations. It’s not that rotational is more valuable than vertical, it’s just an underserved & valuable addition.

So after nearly 8 years of data collection and countless data points, here’s what we learning.

It starts in your 30-40’s and declines consistently every decade after (picture 4). Women should pay particular attention to this (pic 5), but it’s a problem for men as well (pic 6).

The good news is power remains highly responsive to training throughout life - if you do it correctly!

We covered this topic specifically in last week’s episode of my podcast. I went over the details of a real training program for speed and power developed by world-renowned performance coach .

That episode and the notes are all free.

06/18/2024

Posted • Why do you need to pay attention to your power levels as you age? 🤔💥

Power is a formidable biomarker for healthy aging! We’ve collected over 1 billion data points that paint a clear picture of what happens to power as you age.

Check out the slides above to see how power loss differs for men and women (pst check out what happens to women’s power levels after age 60 🤯), dissect which movements are losing power the fastest as you age, and identify how you can start taking care of your power 💪

It’s time to start caring about your power 💥 Your healthspan will thank you for it!

Interested in learning more? Comment “Power” to download our full study on the State of Power.

06/12/2024

Posted • What 1 billion data points taught us about POWER 💥⬇️👀

1. Power is a formidable biomarker for healthy aging

2. We lose power at an average rate of 10.2% per decade

3. Men and women lose power at different rates (check out how this really changes after after 60 on slide 4 👀)

4. Rotational movements decline in power faster over time

5. Power increases with height

6. ‘Overweight’ is the most desirable BMI category to be in for power.

These findings paint a picture that proves power needs to be paid attention to as you grow older to achieve healthy aging!

Stay tuned over the next 3 weeks as we deep dive into the data surrounding power as you age and power in relation to height and weight. We’ll talk data points, what these findings means for YOU, and ways you can make simple changes to your routine to maintain and even gain power as you age 💪

Interested in reading through all of our findings? Comment ‘POWER’ below and well send you a free link to our full study on The State of Power! ✍️ 📊

03/30/2024

The entire diet and nutrition conversation is about to change.

Did you know that a full 30% of a typical American’s diet is composed of factory oils that couldn’t be better engineered to deprive your body of energy, strength, and resistance to disease?

Until now, health experts have turned a blind eye to the destructive effects of vegetable oils, what I call the Hateful Eight. (Corn, Canola, Cottonseed, Soy, Sunflower, Safflower, Grapeseed, Ricebran)

Why?

Because no one's realized that these oils rob our body’s cells of energy.

Over years of research, I’ve put the pieces of the puzzle together. They oxidize easily. This damages our energy-producing mitochondria and opens us up to cancer, diabetes, autoimmune disease, and more.

My upcoming book, Dark Calories, applies a first principles approach to medicine, sheds unproven but still widespread assumptions, and opens the door to a new way of thinking about food and health.

You can pre-order it today! (Click the link in my bio)

01/24/2024

Quantify t-shirts are finally in and available for purchase ($20)! 🦾👕

Get one before they’re gone! 🔥

01/12/2024