Sit-to-stand: How fast can you stand up? Find out with the STS test

Sit-to-stand: How fast can you stand up? Find out with the STS test (Photo: iStock)

There are many ways to tell if people are healthy. Some indicators of good health are so simplistic that you may never have heard of them.

One of the simplest tests of health I know of is referred to as the sit-to-stand (or STS) test. It simply measures how many times you can stand up from a sitting position within 30 seconds. The quicker you can do it, the higher the level of your health in many ways.