Experience the Muscle Health Test in Halifax

Personalized Fitness with Your Muscle Health Score

At OneUp Fitness, we’re committed to enhancing your fitness journey with different tools and technologies. That’s why we’ve partnered with Myomar Molecular to offer an innovative Muscle Health Test that provides an in-depth look at your muscle health.

The Muscle Health Test measures your muscle health score, giving you a detailed assessment of muscle quality, strength, and endurance levels.

This test goes beyond traditional fitness metrics to help you and your trainer create a personalized workout plan tailored to your specific muscle profile.

Watch the video below to learn more about our partnership with Myomar Molecular and how The Muscle Health Test works.

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What Is the Value of Knowing Your Muscle Health Score?

Knowing your muscle health score is essential for maintaining strength, mobility, and wellness as you age. Muscle health declines over time due to sarcopenia, the natural loss of muscle mass, which impacts balance, endurance, and daily activities.

This test reveals if your muscle quality is within a healthy range and lets you track changes over time. Your OneUp Fitness trainer can then tailor exercise, diet, and recovery plans to your needs.

This is the only test of its kind, developed by Halifax’s Myomar Molecular at Dalhousie University, providing unique insights into your muscle health.

How Does Testing Work?

Our muscle health testing offers a comprehensive view of your muscle tissue’s quality and health. The process is simple and insightful:

Collecting data: You’ll provide a urine sample and complete a health questionnaire. Together, these allow our partner lab, Myomar, to analyze 5 critical biomarkers that reflect your muscle tissue’s condition.
Understanding biomarkers: These biomarkers serve as indicators of key biological processes, giving us insights into factors like your muscle’s protein levels, the sufficiency of your resistance training, and the effectiveness of your rest, recovery, and stress management.
Receiving results: A detailed report of your biomarker analysis is sent to your trainer, who will review your results in a 30-minute consultation. This session is designed to help you understand your muscle health and discuss actionable recommendations if needed.
Assessing muscle mass: This test also provides a reliable measure of your muscle mass and can indicate if you’re in a decreased muscle state, known as sarcopenia. With an 80% accuracy rate compared to a DEXA scan, this analysis is a highly effective tool for understanding your muscle health.

The insights from your testing are used to tailor your fitness plan so that you’re on the best path to achieving strong, resilient muscles.

Who Is the Muscle Health Test For?

Muscle health testing at OneUp Fitness is designed for anyone over 40 who wants to improve and maintain their physical health, independence, and strength as they age. It’s especially valuable for:

Health-conscious people: People who are committed to staying physically strong, active, and self-sufficient as they get older
Optimizers: People looking to fine-tune aspects of their muscle health, strength, endurance, nutrition, and recovery to lead a well-rounded, healthy lifestyle
Those with Type 2 diabetes or family history: Anyone managing Type 2 diabetes or with a family history of it who wants to strengthen their muscle health to support long-term wellness proactively
Cancer recovery or remission: Those recovering from or in remission of cancer who wish to regain lost muscle strength and rebuild their physical foundation
Athletes and active adults: Anyone seeking to maintain or improve their physical performance, whether for daily activities or excelling in sports and fitness pursuits
Post-injury or surgery recovery: People recovering from an injury or surgery need to rebuild muscle strength to regain their full activity levels safely

Our Recommendations

We recommend starting with a baseline assessment as soon as you begin a resistance training program, make significant lifestyle changes—such as a new sleep routine or diet—or recover from an injury or surgery. This initial test provides a valuable baseline, offering insight into your current muscle quality and allowing us to measure your progress accurately over time.

For clients with lower muscle quality scores, we suggest retesting every 6 months following the initial measurement to track improvements. For those with a healthy muscle score, an annual test is recommended to monitor and maintain this level of muscle health.

Keep in mind that positive changes in muscle quality can often be detected in as little as 2 weeks.

Monitoring Your Muscle Health Is Important

Healthy muscle is a cornerstone of healthy aging. Research shows that many metabolic conditions and diseases are directly tied to both muscle quantity and quality. The healthier your muscles, the better your overall health and the lower your risk for conditions like Type 2 diabetes and some cancers. Muscle health is more than just strength; it supports metabolic functions that protect against disease and help maintain resilience as you age.

Beyond health, muscle condition also plays a crucial role in physical performance. Whether you’re looking to boost your athletic abilities, improve your daily walk time, or handle household tasks like gardening and yard work with ease and reduced risk of injury, understanding your muscle health can be transformative. A muscle health score provides insight into your current state and helps guide you toward achieving personal fitness and mobility goals.

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