Bodybuilder speaks

[dgs49]

Unfortunately, it takes more than willpower to do this kind of stuff at old age.

At 62, almost every physical activity I do is limited by pain in one joint or another. Even walking up the stairs, my knees sound like a bowl of rice krispies.

The fun part is figuring out things that you CAN do, in spite of a body that is rapidly crumbling into mush.

[dales]

I'm a little over 2 years younger than you, dgs49.

My knees don't crack and my joints don't hurt.


However..........



Everything above the shoulders is long dead.

[Gob]

[Gob]

The world's oldest supermodel


At 83, Daphne Selfe appears in Vogue and struts along the Paris catwalks. Her secret? Long hair, no Botox and a dollop of Boots facecream



Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/artic ... z1sArlAEDw

[Gob]

When Edward Clarke started dancing at the age of 13, barn dances and the Charleston were all the rage.



Now, aged 96, he is mastering another dance-exercise sensation - Zumba.

Mr Clarke, a keen dancer all his life, is the oldest, and only male member of the weekly Zumba Gold over-50s dance club that meets every Thursday at Wrexham's Memorial Hall.



Zumba is a Latin dance-inspired fitness program which was created in Colombia and has become a global fitness craze.

Mr Clarke, a retired baker born in Wrexham in 1915, believes more men should be encouraged to join the fitness classes, adding: "Time is short, and not to enjoy it now would be a crime."

He has enjoyed dancing since he was 13, and says it was thanks to dancing that he met his late wife, Dorothy.

"We did a slow waltz," he said.

"As I left her, she continued to hold my hand. We got together and for 65 years I was in heaven.

"Back then, everybody went to dances. We had a lot of barn dances and live bands.

"There was one dance where you threw your partner all over the floor.

"I remember the Charleston. Before that, there was the Cakewalk. It was like a march that the dancers from the cotton plantations used to do.

"Then of course there were the slow waltzes, even the tango."

Mr Clarke has been enjoying Zumba for about three years.

As the only male member of the over-50s class, which meets every week, he says more men should join in.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-nort ... s-17936984

[MajGenl.Meade]

The world's oldest supermodel

Well that's one dinner less that'll settle round my waist.............

[Gob]

Ageist!

[Gob]

They are at an age when they could be forgiven for putting their feet up and relaxing a little.



But pensioners Robin Daykin, 74, and wife Annette, 62, who live in Scotland have no plans to slow down in life. In fact, they are taking part in one of the fastest and most dangerous motorbike races on the planet. The husband-and-wife team sold their croft and threw themselves headlong into the world of high-performance superbikes. They gave up a lifetime of farming to invest in a 600cc superbike with sidecar – so they can compete in TT races.



While their friends are content with a bus pass, these grandparents will soon be tearing round the track taking on riders less than half their age on the gruelling Formula Two circuit in this month’s famous Isle of Man races. The couple, from Turriff, Aberdeenshire, packed up and sold their croft eight years ago and dipped into their savings to finance a new thrill in life. Mr Daykin convinced his wife they should invest in a classic Royal Enfield motorbike and sidecar to race.

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Mrs Daykin said the couple’s three children – Nicola, Damian and Tree – were all grown up with their own families and so, after retiring they decided to revive an old passion for motorbikes She said: ‘Neither of us wanted a quiet life. This is our time to go out and have fun.’ After some gentle persuasion, she agreed to join her partner in calmer Classic Club races. But they soon became bored and decided to upgrade to a super-powered 600cc Yamaha R6 and sidecar to compete in the Formula Two circuit.

[MajGenl.Meade]

Ageist!

Wrinkleist!

[The Hen]

I think she looks damn fine for 83. Hell, she looks good for 63!

[Gob]

Ageist!

Wrinkleist!

Istyist!

[MajGenl.Meade]

Why do women do this "looks good for 83" stuff? What is she supermodelling - a week in Belsen?

She's 83, emaciated, wrinkled, blotched, chicken-skin, scrawny and mutton dressed as lamb. We get to this age - well the 60+ part - and start to look terrible - getting terribler as gravity and time erode what we had to start with.

My wife's will say of some old trout "Oh she is really an attractive woman" and I'm thinking "I'm really glad she's not naked"

Everyone's glad that I'm not - but that's beside the point

Meade

[Gob]

Ah ha!! It's your own fear of aging that's underneath your approbation Meade, get counselling!!

[The Hen]

Meade, how are you coping with your wife's aging process?

I don't understand how you can't find a well cared for older woman attractive?

I do.

[MajGenl.Meade]

That supermodel poses nude!





Perhaps not:
Definition of APPROBATION
1 (obsolete) : proof
2a : an act of approving, formally or officially

[BoSoxGal]

Here's the thing: young fit bodies are gorgeous, to be sure, but they're most often attached to heads full of fluff and immaturity.

I'd like my 20 year old body back, but not the lack of wisdom I had then. Sometimes I pine for the idealism I had then, but then I remember all the pain & disappointment that idealism doomed me to experience and which I would not wish to experience again.

So overall, I'd rather embrace an imperfect, wrinkling, scarred and menopause-thickening body coupled with the wisdom that comes with age & experience. Though I'll admit to appreciating the view of a fit young man from time to time, increasingly I am attracted to men fairly older than myself as my senses are more fully aroused by depth of thinking and richness of personality than by physicality.

[Gob]

At the venerable age of 93, the world's fittest pensioner is gearing up for three international fitness championships this year.



London-born Charles Eugster, who confesses he is 'very vain', took up running and rowing at the age of 85, when he noticed he was putting on weight. He will tackle the World Masters Rowing Regatta in Italy, the World Masters Athletics Championships in Brazil and the European Strenflex Championships in Switzerland.

Charles, an energetic body builder and rower, will be the first person ever to enter all three challenges at his age. The retired dentist joined a body-building club and began three intense workouts a week aged 89 - then decided to push it up a gear with the help of a personal trainer. Grandfather-of-two Charles, who lives in Uitikon, Switzerland, said his next goal will be to have a beach body at the age of 94.

He said: 'My main motivation to start was because I was losing muscle mass, my body was deteriorating and I was very vain.' 'I wanted to turn the heads of the sexy 70-year-old girls on the beach.'

'I've never done athletics before, it was something new. You can start something new at any age, it doesn't matter how old you are.' Charles will compete at the World Masters Rowing Regatta in September in Varese, Italy. Then he will tackle the World Masters Athletics Championships in October in Porto Alegre, Brazil - 50m freestyle swimming, 100m sprint, shot put and discus.

Charles, who was born in 1919, began a grueling workout regime at the age of 85 and became a fitness ambassador for a gym chain five years later. He lost almost two stone in the first year of working out and is kept on track by his personal trainer. They continuously experiment with different training regimes, diet and natural food supplements. Charles added: 'There is very little information about training methods or diets for the healthy aged above 70. This means we are exploring an unknown field.'

'What we have planned for this year is something new, we want to see if I can take part in an athletic competition, the World Masters in Athletics.' 'We are trying to train me for 100m running, something I have never done before. I might consider swimming. If I can develop my swimming technique I will also try to take part in a men's international competition.' 'The secrets of healthy old living are three factors. One is work and the other is nutrition and the third is exercise in that order. What I hope to achieve is to change the world. Get a new body and start a new life.'

In 2008, he won the World Strenflex Decathlon Championships in the 80+ category, as their oldest contestant. A year later, Charles won the Van Der Merwe Cup, an international fitness decathlon in Switzerland, with the highest number of points scored in any age group. In 2009 he was crowned Strenflex Swiss Champion, and in 2010 he racked up the highest number of points in a Strenflex competition.