Want to retire well? Your personal trainer may be as important as your financial adviser:
It’s a simple routine: stretches, sit-ups, push-ups, leg raises. Bending. Stooping. It isn’t overly strenuous, but it gets the blood flowing and makes Richard Kane feel a sprightly 70.“I’ve been doing this same, 26-minute routine three or four times a week since the Eisenhower administration,” he says proudly.
So many people are living so much longer, in fact, that “the myth of what being elderly looks like has changed,” says Mike Braham, chief executive officer of Trapollo, a Virginia-based connected-care provider. He says the new image is one of people who are physically active, engaged and focused on finding meaning. Braham calls this combination, for those able to achieve it, a “health dividend” that can last — as it has for Richard Kane — decades.
“As we age,” he says, “having the functional ability to do basic things can become more challenging. What if you want to get down on the floor to play with a grandchild? Kick a soccer ball in the backyard? Or carry in the groceries?” It is around such basic desires that Ritchie designs his training programs.One of them is 86-year-old Joyce Field, who began training at age 78.
One example of just how many seniors have decided to keep on going — and going — is reflected in the number of them doing triathlons, which comprise back-to-back-to-back swimming, biking and running. According to data provided by Colorado-based U.S.A. Triathlon, the national governing body for triathlons and other multisport disciplines, the number of Americans age 70 or older who participated in officially sanctioned “tris” grew 168% between 2009 and 2017.
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