This Viral Jumping Trend Supposedly Reveals Your Biological Age. Can You Do It?
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Plus, experts share what "biological age" even is.
The internet is rife with one-off challenges that are said to mean big things about your health, whether it’s a blanket statement that “all women should be able to do 11 push-ups” or a challenge known as the “old man test” that claims to measure whether your body is “old.”
The latest trend is a recent social media challenge that has people measuring their biological age based on their ability to jump off the ground.
The challenge looks like this: You start by kneeling on the ground and then use your strength to jump from a kneeling position to your feet.
Even Derek Jeter got in on the challenge (and the former New York Yankees star completed it successfully, of course). On social media, videos of this fitness challenge are generally accompanied by text that reads “they say if you can jump from your knees to your feet your biological age is
But experts told HuffPost this isn’t actually a measure of biological age.
