Protocol
Structured resistance training and strength/functional prescription
Strength training prescription · Resistance exercise prescription · Grip strength testing · 30-second sit-to-stand test · Exercise physiology programming · Functional capacity testing
Resistance training is one of the few longevity-clinic offerings with a genuine human outcome base: randomised trials support gains in muscle mass, strength and physical function in older adults, and grip strength and sit-to-stand performance are well-established prognostic markers associated with all-cause mortality and disability. Two honest limits apply. First, grip strength and sit-to-stand are validated as predictors, not as targets, so improving the test score has not been shown to deliver the mortality benefit the association implies. Second, no randomised trial has shown that resistance training extends lifespan; the outcome evidence is for function, strength, falls and sarcopenia, plus observational mortality association. The clinic-specific layer, that a proprietary personalised prescription outperforms standard public-health strength guidance, is unsupported and commercial. IMPORTANT CAVEAT ON THIS PROFILE: this session's live web-search budget was exhausted before any primary literature or regulatory page could be searched, so the evidence characterisation above rests on background knowledge rather than sources retrieved live in this session. Only the clinic-offering claims and the HSA remit statement were verified against pages actually opened. The TGA site was unreachable across four fetch attempts (timeouts and connection resets), so the Australian regulatory field is returned as null rather than guessed.
At a glance
- Evidence
- Clinical
- Singapore (HSA)
- Not a regulated product. HSA's remit, per its own description, covers health products (medicines, medical devices and similar) plus the national blood supply and forensic services; it does not extend to clinical or exercise services. Structured resistance training is a physical intervention rather than a health product, so there is no HSA registration or approval pathway that applies to it. Practitioner conduct and clinic licensing sit with other Singapore bodies, which was not verified live in this session.
- Australia (TGA)
- No TGA position on file
- Offered at
- 3 clinics
Singapore
Health Sciences Authority
- HSA status
- Not a regulated product. HSA's remit, per its own description, covers health products (medicines, medical devices and similar) plus the national blood supply and forensic services; it does not extend to clinical or exercise services. Structured resistance training is a physical intervention rather than a health product, so there is no HSA registration or approval pathway that applies to it. Practitioner conduct and clinic licensing sit with other Singapore bodies, which was not verified live in this session.
- In our SG set
- Tracked in Singapore
- SG clinics
- 1
Australia
Therapeutic Goods Administration
- TGA status
- No position on file
- In our AU set
- Tracked in Australia
- AU clinics
- 2
What it is
Plain-language explainer
A supervised, progressively loaded resistance training programme prescribed from baseline functional testing, most often handgrip dynamometry and the 30-second sit-to-stand test, sometimes alongside body composition and VO2 max. Longevity clinics package it as a personalised programme delivered by a physiotherapist or accredited exercise physiologist, with periodic retesting of the same functional measures. The claim made for it is preservation of muscle mass and strength, protection against sarcopenia and falls, and improvement of the functional markers that track with all-cause mortality.
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Sources
What this profile is built on
- Services and programmes · Chi Longevity (Singapore)
- LMI Longevity Medicine protocol page (names no specific drugs) · Longevity Medicine Institute, Double Bay
- Bespoke Longevity — clinician approach citing sleep optimisation · Bespoke Longevity
- Longevity medicine in Australia: preventative care, technology and the future · Vively (Australia)
- About us: HSA regulates health products, secures the blood supply, and provides forensic services · Health Sciences Authority (Singapore)
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