I turned 56 this summer and outside of some injuries (more about these in coming posts) I've figured that I've kept in pretty good shape. I have greater strength and endurance than I've had at any time in my life. I have lower body fat and more lean muscle. I follow a rigorous and demanding training regimen and usually provide strong competition to my very athletic 17 year old stepson.
Feeling pleased with myself I come across Susan Casey's Esquire article on Don Wildman.
The World's Healthiest 75-Year-Old Man
Don Wildman can run like a Marine, snowboard like an Olympian, and bike like a Tour de France champion. Not bad for a 75-year-old.
This guy makes an impression
On any given day, in a private gym above Malibu's Paradise Cove, a handful of men show up to attempt a workout known as the Circuit, more than three thousand repetitions of weight lifting and balancing and abdominal exercises. If you're thinking that three thousand is a huge number of times to lift or pull or curl some heavy object, you are right. Which is why the Circuit has developed a reputation for causing some of these men to -- there's really no subtle way to put it -- projectile vomit. Its twenty multipart exercises are cycled through six times in a complicated sequence, but the Circuit's ground rules are simple: Once you start, you don't stop until it's done. There are no water breaks, no substituting easier moves when the going gets tough, and obviously no whining.
Well, that just redefined what I believed possible.
Alpha^2
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