Older woman training on a Keiser leg press.

KEISER ONLINE COURSE

Train your team to preserve independence as people age

Performance Longevity: Bridging the Gap Between Healthspan and Lifespan is Keiser's new online course. Your team learns a framework to assess physical capacity, find what may limit it, and prescribe individualized exercise.

Enrollment opens at ICAA. $149.99, or 100% off through the end of 2026 with a code we'll email you at launch.

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THE GAP

12.4 years

The estimated gap between lifespan and healthspan in the United States. [1]

Extend performancespan, the years people keep the capacity to do what matters

Lifespan is how long we live. Healthspan is how long we live in relatively good health. Performance Longevity is the framework for extending performancespan.

Diagram comparing lifespan, healthspan, and performancespan.

CAPACITY VS. DEMAND

Find shrinking reserve early. Then train it.

A chair takes relatively the same force and power to stand from at age 90 as at age 20. What changes is our capacity to meet that demand. Performance tests can identify these changes, and targeted exercise can improve capacity, even in older and frail adults. [2,3,4]
Chart of physical capacity falling with age until it crosses the fixed line of task demand.
Nested rings labeled capability, consistency, and reserve.

Reserve shrinks long before capability is lost

CAPABILITY
Do the task once.

CONSISTENCY
Repeat it throughout the day.

RESERVE
Do it when tired, distracted, or responding to the unexpected.

Can you still do it when life is unpredictable?

POWER

Train power. Independence depends on it, and it fades faster than strength.

A person can keep enough strength for a controlled task and still lose some of the speed that demanding real-world situations require. Researchers have proposed a name for this loss of muscle power: powerpenia. [5]

But power is trainable. In one study, high-velocity resistance training increased peak power in older women. [6]
Chart showing power, strength, and mass declining with age, with power falling first and fastest.

KEISER AIM

Turn assessment results into training decisions

ASSESS
Measure current capacity and find what may limit it.

INTERVENE
Prescribe targeted exercise.

MONITOR
Track adaptation and adjust the program.

Use five measures to see where capacity stands

4-Meter Gait Speed

5x Sit-to-Stand

Mini Balance Evaluation Systems Test (mini-BESTest)

Leg Press Peak Power

Chest Press Peak Power

Keiser's Pure Resistance Technology lets your team test muscle power and see whether force or velocity limits performance more.

THE COURSE

Give your team a course they can apply from day one

SEVEN SECTIONS

  1. Defining Aging, Independence, and Performance
  2. Aging and Exercise
  3. Building Function to Translate to Real Life
  4. Training Principles, Qualities, and Considerations
  5. Assessment Methodology
  6. Programming Intervention with Exercise as Medicine
  7. Performance Longevity in Practice

BUILT FOR
Wellness directors and their teams, senior living executives, physical therapists, and older-adult fitness practitioners.

FORMAT
Online. Video modules, PDF slides, and knowledge checks.

FINAL EXAM
40 questions. 80% to pass. Unlimited retakes.

STUDY SUPPORT
Keiser Community study group.

ENROLLMENT
Opens at ICAA.

PRICE
$149.99, or 100% off through the end of 2026 with a code we'll email you at launch.

LIMITED STAFF OR EQUIPMENT
You can still apply the framework. Assessment methods and programming options may differ.

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Crystal Johnson

“The next 25 years must be about measuring outcomes and extending performancespan, not just lifespan.”

Crystal Johnson, STEP Director & Older Adult Market Lead, Keiser

MEET US AT ICAA

Visit booth #205 in Orlando, November 17-19

See concepts from the curriculum at the ICAA Conference. Or join our Lunch & Learn, More Life In Your Years: The Power of Performance Longevity. This year, we mark 25 years of continuous ICAA support.

LUNCH & LEARN
Wednesday, November 18
Ocean Ballroom 9-12, Level 1, next door to the ICAA Expo
Session One (Blue): 12:00-1:00pm
Session Two (Green): 1:20-2:20pm
STEP by Keiser logo.

APPLY IT

Put the framework to work with STEP by Keiser

STEP by Keiser brings these principles into practice. It gives you a structured system to assess capacity, deliver progressive exercise, and monitor change. Start with the course.

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Older adults training side by side on Keiser resistance machines with digital displays.
Performance Longevity brochure cover and inside pages.

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Read the science behind the course, then share it with your leadership team.

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References

  1. Garmany A, Terzic A. Global healthspan-lifespan gaps among 183 World Health Organization member states. JAMA Netw Open. 2024;7(12):e2450241. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.50241.
  2. Guralnik JM, Simonsick EM, Ferrucci L, et al. A short physical performance battery assessing lower extremity function: association with self-reported disability and prediction of mortality and nursing home admission. J Gerontol. 1994;49(2):M85-M94. doi:10.1093/geronj/49.2.M85.
  3. Pahor M, Guralnik JM, Ambrosius WT, et al. Effect of structured physical activity on prevention of major mobility disability in older adults: the LIFE Study randomized clinical trial. JAMA. 2014;311(23):2387-2396. doi:10.1001/jama.2014.5616.
  4. Fiatarone MA, O'Neill EF, Ryan ND, et al. Exercise training and nutritional supplementation for physical frailty in very elderly people. N Engl J Med. 1994;330(25):1769-1775. doi:10.1056/NEJM199406233302501.
  5. Freitas SR, Cruz-Montecinos C, Ratel S, Pinto RS. Powerpenia should be considered a biomarker of healthy aging. Sports Med Open. 2024;10:27. doi:10.1186/s40798-024-00689-6.
  6. Fielding RA, LeBrasseur NK, Cuoco A, Bean J, Mizer K, Fiatarone Singh MA. High-velocity resistance training increases skeletal muscle peak power in older women. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2002;50(4):655-662. doi:10.1046/j.1532-5415.2002.50159.x.
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