Start with your decade
In your 40s.
The slope has started. You probably can't feel it, which is exactly why this is the decade to measure.
Find your weakest linkWhere you are on the curve
Muscle and bone are slowly declining. Blood pressure, blood sugar and weight tend to creep up a little each year. None of it hurts. All of it adds up.
Accept it: Your close-up vision will start to go. Accept it. That isn't the one to worry about.
Your likely weakest links
Blood pressure
The most common silent climb of this decade.
Blood sugar
Weight around the middle and a rising A1c often show up here.
Sleep
Stress, and for many women, perimenopause.
What to fill first
Keep strength training. It's what slows muscle loss. Watch your waist more than your weight. Guard your sleep. If work pushed your friends off the calendar, put one back.
At-home checks
Blood pressure
Home cuff, seated, after five minutes of rest.
Grip strength
A hand grip meter.
5× sit-to-stand
Five times, arms crossed. Time it.
Balance
One leg, eyes open. Count the seconds.
Weight & waist
Waist measured at the belly button.
Check once a year, same time each year, so you can see the trend.
Find out where you stand.
Ten minutes, free, and nothing you enter leaves your browser. Then fill the first bucket.