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Is Capacity the new Longevity?
I’ve been talking about capacity as the most useful way to think about how well we’re ageing. It’s not about trying to stack on extra years, it’s about our ability to live them.
And that is enabled by our capacity.
I’m pleased to see more attention going towards it, but I do have a slight sense of here we go again.
The idea has been around for a while. The WHO introduced intrinsic capacity in its 2015 World report on ageing and health.
Broadly, it means the physical and mental capacities we can draw on, including movement, thinking, psychological functioning, vision, hearing and vitality.
My whole method centres on four forms of capacity 👇
✅PHYSICAL CAPACITY covers the strength, fitness, balance and mobility to do what you want.
✅RECOVERY CAPACITY is how well you recover from exercise, stress, poor sleep and the demands of normal life.
✅METABOLIC CAPCITY concerns how well your body produces and uses energy, and the nutrition and metabolic health supporting it.
✅HUMAN CAPACITY brings in relationships, purpose, confidence and the reasons you want to stay healthy in the first place.
These are my coaching categories, which differ from WHO’s five domains, but share a focus on what our health enables us to do.
I’ve always found capacity the most useful way to talk about wellness and performance because it makes the goal specific.
If you want to keep active and keep going on long hikes and rambles, we can look at the strength, fitness and balance that requires.
If work knackers you out for the weekend, recovery and energy need attention too.
Capacity also helps explain why being fit in one area doesn’t mean everything else is working well.
You can run a respectable 10k and still sleep badly, struggle with stress and feel increasingly disconnected from people.
Capacity is a wellbeing North Star!
💪 Which Capacity is part of your strength?
Darren Morris lives in the United Kingdom
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