Dr. Andy Galpin

So tremendous speed on her part.

We can play the same game here as age goes on, although it is a little bit less dramatic than the men.

The world record for 35-year-old is held by a still current and competing star, Shelley Ann Fraser-Price, at 10.62 seconds.

As you go up to the 40-year-old, you're talking about now, again, a similar half a second or so jump to 11.09 seconds.

And then it continues really on from there.

All the way to the end there, you've got a 100-year-old coming in at a smoking 39.62 seconds.

And then, of course, a 105-year-old

a little bit slower at a time of one minute and 2.95 seconds.

So as I mentioned, if you're a woman out there and you can't run a 100-yard dash in under a minute, again, there's a 105-year-old out there who will smoke you.

Running 100 meters as fast as you can may not be the best test for many of you out there.

And so while I think that speed is critically important and it is different than power,

Many of you could probably get away with just a simple test of power, and you have a lot of options that are more realistic and probably a little safer for many of you.

If you're an athlete or competitor of some type, a lot of ways you can go about this.

Of course, you can use things like a force plate, which is an incredibly expensive and fancy scale that can tell you exactly how much force and how much time it takes you to push into the ground.

Other options are just simply doing something like a vertical jump test or a broad jump test.

A very, very easy rule of thumb that I like for the broad jump, and this is, again, a horizontal jump, so how far out in front of yourself can you jump, is can you jump your height?

So if you're six feet tall, can you jump six feet?

High-level athletes are going to be looking more like 9 to 10 or even 11 feet in that jump, but a basic metric for the average person is can you jump your height.

Vertical jump is actually my favorite way you can do this easily with just a tape measure.

Put a mark on the wall, tape how high you can jump, measure it that way.