This episode explores the full set of the 18 Physical Standards.
The everyday movement abilities that keep a human body capable, confident, and independent throughout life. These standards aren’t tests or judgments.
They’re a roadmap for maintaining the strength, mobility, balance, and resilience needed to participate fully in your life.
What We Cover:
• Carrying strength for groceries, suitcases, tools, and daily load handling
• Balance for stepping, dressing, uneven ground, and recovering from stumbles
• Jumping and landing for power, reaction time, and force absorption
• Floor access through the Turkish get‑up
• Core stability for real‑world side‑to‑side control
• Hip hinging for safe bending and lifting
• Forward bending for socks, shoes, and reaching the floor
• Single‑leg strength for walking, stairs, and standing up
• Lateral mobility for cars, gardening, sport, and direction changes
• Hamstring and adductor strength for efficient movement
• Lower‑leg strength for balance and long‑term lower‑body health
• Full‑range overhead strength for shelves, luggage, and daily reaching
• Shoulder stability for comfortable everyday movement
• Pushing strength through full‑range push-ups
• Pulling strength through a single pull-up
• Overhead mobility through pullovers
• Neck strength for driving, reading, desk work, and posture
Key Message: Individually, these standards are simple. Together, they create capability. The freedom to say yes to the things you want to do. The goal isn’t perfection. The goal is to be enough.
Resources: Movement demonstrations and guidance for all 18 standards are available at enough.health/standards