Print This Page
Home
E-mail pageSkin Pinch Test
Your skin is replaced faster than any organ in your body and it will show progress fast:
Place one hand palm down on a table. With the fore-finger and thumb of the other hand, take a large pinch of skin from the back of your hand. Hold the skin firmly for five seconds then release; counting the number of seconds it takes for the skin to return to normal.
_____________________________________________ Seconds Body Age _____________________________________________ Under 2 19 2 - 4 30 5 - 6 40 7 - 8 45 9 - 10 50 11 - 12 60
Resting Heart-rate Test
Take your pulse by feeling for the large artery in your neck or your outer wrist.
Count the number of beats in 20 seconds. repeat until you have a reliable average. (bear in mind that cigarettes and alcohol and lift this by 8 - 10 beats per minute) Multiply by three to get your per minute rate.
___________________________________________________ Heart Rate per min. Body Age ___________________________________________________ Under 60 19 63 20 64 22 65 25 66 27 67 30 68 33 69 35 70 37 71 39 72 43 73 45 74 50 75 55 76 60 77 65 78 70 79 75 80 80 * 81 85 * 82 90 * 83 95 * 85 100 *If you average the above two results you have an indication of your biological age! Compare it with your chronological age!
Check out this test: BBC