Exclusive | Inside NYCs new longevity fitness competition which tests how well youre actually aging

Think you’ll make it to 100 years old? Well… can you walk across a balance beam while holding a tube of water?How about crawl across a 40-foot cargo net? Or clamber over wooden boxes?Those are just some of the hurdles in the brand new Super Age Games, the world’s first longevity fitness competition, which aims to test not how jacked your muscles are but how well you’re aging.Perform well and you may not just be more likely to reach centenarian status — you’re also more likely to have an easier time as you get up there in years.Most fitness competitions measure speed, strength, endurance or some combination of the three — think Hyrox or Ironman.The Super Age Games, though, look at aging markers like VO2 max, balance, agility and memory, with a goal of making people realize that aging well is accessible to everyone, not just biohackers with pricey gadgets.“So much of the stuff that we hear around longevity is basically tech bros getting weird in their basement,” David Stewart, the 68-year-old founder of longevity media platform Super Age, told The Post.“The genesis of Super Age was to help people understand and reduce the contradictory confusion of all the noise that’s out there,” he went on.

And if they change a few behaviors? Even better.Most importantly, the Games focus not just on living longer but on how long you’ll live well.Stewart and his team worked with experts at The Buck Institute for Research on Aging to figure out the basics of the eight trials: six physical, one cognitive and one social.One key consideration? You don’t have to suffer to live a long, healthy life.

In fact, Stewart said, they want to be an antidote to the “grim vibes” of Hyrox and the crazy antics of biohacker billionaires.“The challenges themselves are accessible, but they’re also entertaining,” he explained.“It’s got to be fun.”The inaugural Games were held in Manhattan on Saturday, Nov.

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