[Mariner]

There's no magical secrets here people. It's what all of you have always known: Eat right. Sleep right. No substances, and, most of all...

Get up off your fat ass and EXERCISE VIGOROUSLY.

Jack LaLanne was pounding the same formula into your mother in 1960.

[montag813]

Jack LaLanne was pounding the same formula into your mother in 1960.

Um...would ya care to rephrase that, laddie?

[Silentgypsy]

Neat article!

[dfwgator]

Pop Quiz...

Which one of these two lived longer than the other?

[2banana]

Cigarette smoking Barack Obama?

[goodnesswins]

um....my almost 93 year old MIL would disagree...hasn’t exercised a day in her life, ate lots of carbs/sugar for past, oh, probably 40 years...and was an alcoholic for many years...BUT, she got a good start on a farm, so there’s that. She probably did sleep right.

[Deaf Smith]

12 oz curls rule.

[Larry Lucido]

I think I can still do 10 push-ups. Wouldn’t want to take a chance on an injury, though. Better not try.

[Larry Lucido]

Let me just drop this in here.

[joelt]

True! Exercise; eat less. Watch less sports; do more sports. Sitting is the new smoking. I’m working on triathlons for now (sprint distance). I’m 63. Go for it.. Life is short.

[Peter W. Kessler]

Live to 117? Me?

Nope

I believe in quality, not quantity.

I could spend the rest of my life eating cardboard and tofu.

I’d probably get very sick and die. (Hat tip to Rodney Dangerfield)

[Sparticus]

Whatever. We're so fat and lazy as a population that thin people in their 60's are remarkable. A hundred years ago, before widespread use of mechanized transportation, electric and gas heating, desk jobs and super cheap packaged food, everyone was thin their whole life. Fat people were the ones who were remarkable.

1911 - A Trip Through New York City

[Trumpet 1]

It is a lot easier for a 60 year old person to have a fitness routine if the person is retired from work and has all day to rest and exert and rest and exert and on and on. I know of an MD who died at age 57. He had a jogging routine and had a chunk of plaque to break free from a blood vessel and go to his brain. Died. Yet he ate steak and bacon and dairy milk and lots of plaque accumulating foods. They have got tests to look for plaque in the blood vessels. He figgered he could just jog it off.

[Mr.Unique]

...Barack Omaba...

...is a scrawny pipsqueek who smokes.

[Slyfox]

I got in the best shape of my life while we were doing a major remodel a few years ago. I was busy every day for 3 months, up and down stairs, carrying demo material out to the truck, swinging hammers, pulling nails on the floor, etc.

The good thing was the program was not boring and I did not injure anything outside of some bruising.

The bad thing was that my exercise program cost us $63,000.

I do have a hell of a shower.

[trisham]

Absolutely.

[KevinB]

I’m 60. I battled 40 mph wind gusts during my regular 15 mile bike ride today. I’m heading out to Utah Tuesday to ski with my 26 year old fit son for a week. We will ski hard from 10:00 until the lifts close each day. There is no reason for us geezers to slow down just because we have a little age on us.

[Hot Tabasco]

My group of people play lots of softball in the summer then volleyball and pickle ball throughout the fall and winter.....A number of them are now hitting the batting cage on Thursdays in preparation for the upcoming softball season.

Those who head to Florida for the winter are playing softball down there too.......