86 years young, WOW!!!!!!!!

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This 86 Year-Old Gymnast Has AMAZING Skills and Strength! - Safeshare.TV (http://safeshare.tv/w/cdaBSBkGKr)

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Truly amazing.

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This 86 Year-Old Gymnast Has AMAZING Skills and Strength! - Safeshare.TV (http://safeshare.tv/w/cdaBSBkGKr)

Awesome. What flexibility.

We have a 96 year old man in our town who still runs in senior marathons.
He looks, acts, and thinks as a much younger man. Very charming guy.
Not rigid at all. Had a large family.....all girls....now lots of grand and great grand children.........

But this woman is amazingly limber and strong......
Probably something she's done her entire life......
As they say "use it or lose it"......so true.

Thanks for sharing that video. I'd break my neck if I tried that.....

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I'd really like to know what kind of diet she follows..............:bowdown:

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I'd really like to know what kind of diet she follows..............:bowdown:

I'll wager a guess that it was a sensible diet of all things in moderation.

She no doubt never stopped moving and practicing her gymnastics.
The flexibility is amazing for a woman of her age.

Another elder that comes to mind is the recently deceased Jack LaLanne.
Lots of us exercised along with him back in the late 1960's....one of the first, if not the very first exercise shows on t.v.

With a newborn baby at home in 1968, my entire day revolved around her schedule (The Dr. Benjamin Spock schedule)......after our morning coach carriage "walk", I'd turn on Jack LaLanne and exercise along with him and his simple "chair". There were no gyms to speak of in those days.......his routine worked.

Died January 23, 2011 (2011-01-23) (aged 96)
Morro Bay, California (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morro_Bay,_California), USA
Cause of death Pneumonia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumonia)

His personal diet evolved over the years.........sometimes eating meat; at other times not......it varied


Could You Give Up Dessert for 76 Years?


Jack LaLanne began each and every day with 50 grams of soy protein. The Jack LaLanne diet is not completely vegetarian, but he didn’t eat chicken, red meat or white sugar. He got most of his protein from egg whites, soy protein and occasionally fish.

The Jack LaLanne diet is not a low-carb diet, but he does stick strictly to natural grains such as brown rice and whole wheat.

LaLanne also ate at least ten fresh, raw vegetables a day. He hadn’t had dessert since 1929 and never ate between meals or after 9 p.m.

LaLanne's long and varied life makes fascinating reading....

But What About Us Ordinary Mortals?

It would be easy to dismiss Jack LaLanne as a fanatic with little to offer ordinary mortals like you and me.

But he has always been the first to point out that his super-strict routine is not for everyone.

He says his whole life has been devoted to getting across the message that anyone can improve their physical condition if they really want to and are willing to do something about it.

You don't need to follow a grueling two-hour exercise routine, says LaLanne, but start incorporating more physical activity into your daily life.

Stop spending most of your free time slouched in front of the TV. Get out and walk, lift some weights and take a regular swim.

Most important, though, is to change what you eat. An early nutritionist mentor of Jack LaLanne's described humans as "walking garbage cans".

So here's the simple secret I promised earlier…

Try the Jack LaLanne Diet ... Lite

LaLanne recommends starting out by replacing some of the junk foods we eat with healthier foods. Substitute white bread and white rice with whole grains and brown rice.

The "lite" version of the Jack LaLanne diet entails gradually cutting down on the amount of processed food, red meat and poultry we eat, and eating more fish and raw vegetables.

Try to eat at least three or four kinds of raw vegetables every day and gradually work your way up to LaLanne's eight- ten vegetables.

A great way to do this without too much effort is to invest in a juicing machine and start experimenting with literally thousands of delicious combinations of fruit and vegetable juice blends.

You don't have to give up desserts, but do cut down. You don't need dessert after every meal. And when you do eat dessert, try to choose healthier, lower fat options.

What about vitamins?

Going overboard on vitamins and supplements is expensive and also of questionable value.

Diet

LaLanne blamed overly processed foods for many health problems. For most of his life, he advocated primarily a meat and vegetable diet; eating meat three times per day with eggs and fruit in morning and many servings of vegetables in afternoon and evening. In his later years, he appears to advocate a mostly meatless diet but which included fish (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish) (see Pescetarianism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pescetarianism)), and took vitamin supplements.

In his television programs, he recommended the following meal plan; Breakfast: fruit, eggs and/or meat, whole wheat toast and coffee/skim milk. Lunch: Big salad, and meat/fish/cottage cheese. Dinner: Big salad, two vegetables, meat/fowl, fruit, and yogurt.

He ate two meals a day and avoided snacks. His breakfast, after working out for two hours, consisted of hard-boiled egg whites, a cup of broth, oatmeal with soy milk and seasonal fruit. For dinner, he and his wife typically ate raw vegetables and egg whites along with fish. He did not drink coffee.

LaLanne said his two simple rules of nutrition are: "if man made it, don't eat it", and "if it tastes good, spit it out." He offered his opinion of the average person's diet:
Look at the average American diet: ice cream, butter, cheese, whole milk, all this fat. People don't realize how much of this stuff you get by the end of the day. High blood pressure (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_blood_pressure) is from all this high-fat eating. Do you know how many calories are in butter and cheese and ice cream? Would you get your dog up in the morning for a cup of coffee and a donut? Probably millions of Americans got up this morning with a cup of coffee, a cigarette and a donut. No wonder they are sick and fouled up.
Exercise

When exercising, he worked out repetitively with weights until he experienced "muscle fatigue" in whatever muscle groups he was exercising, or when it became impossible for him to go on with a particular routine. "Training to failure" is now commonplace. LaLanne moved from exercise to exercise without stopping. To contradict critics who thought this would leave him tightly musclebound and uncoordinated, LaLanne liked to demonstrate one-handed balancing. His home contained two gyms and a pool which he used daily. He also dismissed warmups, calling them "shtick" and "something else to sell": "15 minutes to warm up? Does a lion warm up when he's hungry? 'Uh oh, here comes an antelope. Better warm up.' No! He just goes out there and eats the sucker."

He continued with his two-hour workouts into his 90s, which also included walking.

He often said, "I'd hate to die; it would ruin my image." Similarly, he stated, "If I died, people would say 'Oh look, Jack LaLanne died. He didn't practice what he preached.'"[5] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_LaLanne#cite_note-NYT-obit-5) When asked about sex, LaLanne had a standard joke, saying that despite their advanced age, he and his wife still made love almost every night: "Almost on Monday, almost on Tuesday, almost on Wednesday..." He explained his reasons for exercising:
I train like I'm training for the Olympics or for a Mr. America contest, the way I've always trained my whole life. You see, life is a battlefield. Life is survival of the fittest. How many healthy people do you know? How many happy people do you know? Think about it. People work at dying, they don't work at living. My workout is my obligation to life. It's my tranquilizer. It's part of the way I tell the truth — and telling the truth is what's kept me going all these years.
He also added "I know so many people in their 80s who have Alzheimer's or are in a wheelchair or whatever. And I say to myself 'I don't want to live like that. I don't want to be a burden on my family. I need to live life. And I'd hate dying; it would ruin my image.'"

LaLanne summed up his philosophy about good nutrition and exercise:
Living is a pain in the butt. Dying is easy. It's like an athletic event. You've got to train for it. You've got to eat right. You've got to exercise. Your health account, your bank account, they're the same thing. The more you put in, the more you can take out. Exercise is king and nutrition is queen: together, you have a kingdom.
Opinion about food additives and drugs

LaLanne often stressed that artificial food additives, drugs, and processed foods contributed to making people mentally and physically ill. As a result, he writes, many people turn to alcohol and drugs to deal with symptoms of ailments, noting that "a stream of aches and pains seems to encompass us as we get older. He refers to the human bloodstream as a "River of Life", which is "polluted" by "junk foods" loaded with "preservatives, salt, sugar, and artificial flavorings".