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I would concur with the article that downhill skiing is a great way to measure up against your younger self. Still feel like I am one of the better skiers on the slopes at 69.
The septuagenarian’s secret to achieving athletic longevity? Finding the sport you love, being okay with finishing last, and lots of airline miles.
The 72-year-old just crushed his 2,000th marathon—a stupendous accomplishment made even more incredible by the fact that he ran his first 26.2-miler 20 years ago at 52. Macon has run at least one marathon in every state in America 23 times. His PR? Four hours and 15 minutes.
The competition is getting intense here… I need to up my game! She’s about 4 hours, 28 minutes better than I am right now.
How’s your plank going?
Great for him! 71 and strong!
Legendary gambler and hedge fund manager Edward Thorp, 91, shares what he’s learned about exercise, diet and managing risk in all areas of life.
An interesting perspective about applying risk analysis to aging.
The mathematics professor and hedge fund manager Edward Thorp rocketed to fame in the early 1960s by showing readers how to best casinos in blackjack. His book Beat the Dealer laid out a groundbreaking system of card counting, followed by guides to roulette and other gambling games. Thorp also invented or perfected a number of the quantitative hedge fund strategies being used today, and he delivered 30 years of 20% annual returns for the hedge funds he operated, with only a handful of down months, none large.
Less well known is that Thorp has devoted his talents as much to health and longevity as to beating casinos and markets. At 91 he’s remarkably healthy and vigorous. Although he’s no longer running marathons or doing serious weight training, Thorp jogs and works out at the gym regularly. He weighs 155—2 pounds above his weight at age 17—and can do two chin-ups and 15 pushups. He analyzes scientific literature and manages his regimen carefully.
That guy looks fantastic, and is very fit, for age 91… whatever he’s doing, its working!
How about things people can buy?
I have an Apple Watch and an Oura Ring, which I really like. The stats are really good, and so easy to use. I find the confluence of factors that go into the result are a little tangled or confusing. That is, if I change one variable, I don’t necessarily get a clear change in the variables that are recorded during the night for my sleep.So, for example, I might eat a big meal one night and, instead of having terrible sleep, I might have fairly good sleep. Another night I might eat a big meal and it just ruins my sleep. Even though we’re a species with much in common, we also have a great deal of individual variability. What works for or is appropriate for one person might not work so well or be so appropriate for another person. You have to learn your own peculiarities and how to work with them.
There’s a book about all this stuff called Outlive, by Peter Attia. I agree with almost everything in the book. My wife actually knows a lot more about this than I do. She’s really smart. She’s a molecular biologist by training. She was in the medical industry for quite a few years. So I just go ask her.
Then, in 1991, she picked up a magazine about that year’s Ironman Triathlon in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, which consists of a 2.4-mile swim, a 112-mile bike ride, and a 26.2-mile run.
Gruenfeld’s husband, who’d supported her fitness journey since the beginning, encouraged her enter — even though she was by no means a swimmer and didn’t even own a bike.
So, she joined a local pool, bought a bike, and took a six-month leave of absence from her demanding job to train.
In October 1992, at 48 years of age, Gruenfeld crossed the finish line at Kona.
So she did it again. And again and again, completing a total of 28 Ironmans in 31 years.
She even trained while being treated for two cancers, one under her arm and one in her breast.
Hahaha - Not your average person I think: She took 6 months off from her demanding job to train… that’s a half of a year… ummm… I didn’t have that luxury at 48 years old. Would be out of work unable to pay expenses of home, food, car, kid’s education. 
Don’t have that luxury now at 65 years old. Probably will work til I am 75 years old.
Good for her.
TBH - in skin and wrinkles she actually looks older than my 92 year old German Father-in-law.
Here’s hoping rapamycin keeps me working and my skin and looks better!
Very impressive!
I may be jealous, but he may be overdoing for maximum health benefits. Some people become excessive-compulsive about exercise. I was that way for a few years with running. Why? Because it was the runner’s high that I experienced, Some more than others experience the endorphin high that comes with running and exercise.
“Vascular, lean muscle is one thing, a shrink-wrapped human is another. So, what is a healthy body fat percentage? Nuffield health recommends for men:”
The consensus that I can find is that his body fat is too low to be healthy.
Even pro-body builders don’t remain that shredded for long periods because the body starts to consume muscle for energy.
IMO: 10-15% is the healthy range
Recommendations by Age
Ages 65-75
World Health Organization (WHO): 11-21% body fat
National Institutes of Health (NIH): Up to 24% body fat associated with lowest mortality risk
Ages 75 and Older
WHO: 13-24% body fat
NIH: Up to 24% body fat associated with lowest mortality risk
Further I think that even a bit higher than 15% is actually the healthier range and is just fine and actually desirable. Also the fat distribution matters. The deeper fat deposits around your organs are issue and not the fat closer to the skin, which you need. As we age in the presence of the inflammation there is a loss of fat cells - very bad news. Resulting you look gaunt on your face and aged, which you are. So equating lower body fat with health is just too simplistic association ( think antagonistic pleiotropy), which only holds true in non-healthy BMI people.
Putting aside hoped for rejuvenation through the bodybuilding, the impressive part is that he actually is doing something with his life - exercising and watching his diet. This is such a positive example for people of any age!
Wow.
I was in a clinic on Wednesday (17/04/24) having a skin cancer removed from my ear. There was an old man waiting for eye surgery (possibly cataracts?) accompanied by his 2 daughters. When asked his DOB he replied “20/12/1923”. So he was aged 100. Pretty frail, walked with a frame, but he made it! The guy in the video was in outstanding health for age 100.
It never fails to sadden me when I see the toll age takes on people.
Aging takes a big toll as it stands and that’s why we need to find ways to stop all the bad side effects of aging, not just muscle loss. In the new world as I see it the chronological “aging” won’t be a bad thing. Imagine the world where when you get older, you get quicker, stronger, more handsome, with no wrinkles, no gray hair and most importantly your cognitive powers and knowledge increasing…
In the meantime, I always wear sunglasses (or photochromic eyeglasses when cloudy), hoodie, and sunscreen when outside. Good luck!
Winning the centenarian olympics!
Orville Rogers is 100 years old. He set a new age record by running the men’s 60 Meter in 19.13 seconds.
At the age of 50, Rogers took up running after reading the book Aerobics by Dr. Kenneth H. Cooper.[8][9] Rogers credited Dr. Cooper with saving his life, “at least once, probably twice,” first by kickstarting his running career, and again when Dr. Cooper discovered blockage in his heart during a Cooper test. Orville competed in Masters athletics races, setting records at the age of 90[10] and 95.[11] In 2015, Orville teamed up with other nonagenarians to set multiple relay running records.[12] He made national news after a video of his sprint against then 92 year old Dixon Hemphill went viral. Rogers, 99 at the time, won the race by 0.05 seconds.[13][14] To celebrate his 100th birthday, Orville and his family ran a combined 100 miles.[15][16] He then set two 100-year-old age group records in the 60m at 19.13 and 400m at 4:16:90 while competing at the 2018 USATF Masters Indoor Championships.[17] In 2020 was voted to the USATF Masters Hall of Fame.
Interestingly, running (skipping rope works great too) and / or playing tennis is much more effective for maintaining your bone density and avoiding risk of fracture than any other exercise. As we all know if folks ( (> 60 for woman or > 70 for men) break their bones either by falling (or sometimes even simply by turning around in their beds) that a high percentage of them never recovers. Hence, I’d say that physical activity and mediterranean diet are the greatest life extension methods available to us.
Perhaps dancing too…
On a Sunday afternoon this month in North Las Vegas, Anna Bailey could be found at the back of the Aliante Casino, Hotel and Spa’s theater rehearsing her moves. Bailey, a dancer who has had a pioneering and historic career, had emerged from a half-century retirement to perform in a revival of “Follies.” Although you would never have guessed by watching her that the 97-year-old had not performed since the 1970s.
Bailey was one of the original showgirls at the Moulin Rouge, which, when it opened in 1955, was the first racially integrated hotel-casino not only in Las Vegas, but also in the nation. She was also the first Black woman to perform in an otherwise all-White chorus line on the Strip.
Full story: She broke racial barriers as a Vegas showgirl. At 97, she’s still dancing.
Mike Fremont still going strong at 102!
Source: https://x.com/HarveyLewisRuns/status/1786718074340610336
Good for Mike… looks like he might need a sports bra or bro (male bra). 
