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Before you start

Five minutes: a seven-question safety screen, your first measurements, and (if you want the weekly emails and a progress page) enrollment.

1 · The seven questions

Seven questions. Any 'yes' means: talk with your own clinician before you start, and bring this plan. Many people can begin with the chair track or a gentler pace once cleared.

Has a doctor told you not to exercise, or that you have a heart condition that limits activity?
Do you get chest pain, pressure, or unusual breathlessness with activity or at rest?
Do you faint, black out, or get very dizzy with activity or when you stand up?
Have you had a fall with injury, or two or more falls, in the past year?
Do you have a bone, joint or back problem that gets worse with activity?
Are you recovering from surgery, a hospital stay, or a new illness in the last three months?
Do you have a condition your clinician is still working up, or blood pressure or blood sugar that is not under control?

Any yes? Talk with your own clinician before you start and bring this plan. This program is education, not medical care.

Stop and rest if you notice: Chest pain or pressure · Sudden or unusual breathlessness · Dizziness, light-headedness or feeling faint · A racing or irregular heartbeat · Sudden, sharp or worsening pain · Anything that frightens you. Stop, sit, and rest. If symptoms do not settle within minutes, or you have chest pain, fainting, or one-sided weakness or slurred speech, call 911.

2 · Your week-0 numbers

Open the Movement Lab and do the tests you can: the chair stand, single-leg stance, 4-meter walk and Timed Up & Go take about ten minutes with a chair, a hallway and a phone timer. Grip strength only if you own a dynamometer. Results are saved on this device; after you enroll, week 1 lets you copy them into your record with one click.

Do the tests rested, in the shoes you usually wear, with someone nearby the first time.

3 · Enroll for the weekly plan (optional)

Enrolling gives you one email a week with that week's plan and a private progress page. It also adds your results to the consented, de-identified registry — that is how the program gets counted. You can use the whole plan without enrolling.

The registry terms, in plain words

What we store: your email, an age band, an optional sex field, your track, your five test results at weeks 0, 6 and 12, and six answers a week (walks, strength sessions, balance days, effort, pain yes/no, fall yes/no).
Why: to send the weekly plan, and to count whether the program works. Results are reported only in aggregate (how many enrolled, finished, and improved). Your email is hashed for analysis.
Who: Magellan Longevity LLC. No hospital, clinic or insurer is involved; this is not medical care and not a research study. Nothing is sold or shared for marketing.
Your control: stop the emails with one click; withdraw from your progress page to delete your results and check-ins. Consent version 2026-09-28.v1.
Where: a database with access limited to program functions; your record is reachable only with the private key in your browser and your emails. Details in the privacy policy.