The Incredible Flying Nonagenarian

[PamNY]

This is a NY Times magazine story about athletics in later life. Though the nonagenarian is atypical in the feats she performs in her nineties, she's still inspiring.

And the information about how important -- and possible -- it is to build and retain muscles in our later years is useful, inspiring and applicable to everyone.

BTW, the story is long (magazine length). And I gotta go lift some weights.

[shootingstar]

Very inspiring.

I noticed this excerpt:

And then one day when she was 77, a teammate suggested she might enjoy track and field.
She hooked up with a local coach, who taught her the basics. She found a trainer — a strict Hungarian woman who seemed as eager to push her as Kotelko was keen to be pushed. Juiced with enthusiasm, Kotelko hit the gym hard, three days a week in season. For up to three hours at a stretch, she performed punishing exercises like planks and roman chairs and bench presses and squats, until her muscles quivered and gassed out.
Though she still does some of these things — the push-ups (three sets of 10), the situps (three sets of 25) — she doesn’t push herself the same way anymore. Apart from Aquafit classes three times a week, she pretty much takes the whole dreary Vancouver winter off.