Wow. I’ve often said that “you’re never too old to get into shape” - and Charles Eugster is living proof.
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Guardian: “I Am a 91-Year-Old Bodybuilder”
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Guardian: “I Am a 91-Year-Old Bodybuilder”
Monday, April 4th, 2011Ida Keeling Sets a New Sprint Record
Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011Her 60 meter time – 29.86 seconds – was a new world record for her age class: 95-and-up. Ida Keeling is 4-6 and 83 pounds, and does her running on size 51/2 feet. She runs in the hallways of her Riverdale apartment
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Ida Keeling Sets a New Sprint Record
Meet Olga Kotelko
Saturday, November 27th, 2010The NYT headline, “The Flying Nonagenarian” pretty much says it all. She picked up softball again after retiring from teaching in 1984 — slow-pitch, but pretty competitive. (“We went for blood.”) And then one day when she was 77, a teammate suggested she might enjoy track and field
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Meet Olga Kotelko
Never Too Old to Play
Monday, June 7th, 2010Especially when there are playgrounds designed for older people opening up. According to the BBC: London’s first specially-designed pensioners’ playground has opened its gates to the public in Hyde Park. The £50,000 playground is fitted with six machines, including a cross-trainer and sit-up bench, each designed to exercise a different part of the body.
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Never Too Old to Play