Fit at 102: Ray Clark is proof that it’s never too late to start exercising
By Lenny Bernstein, WashPost, Published: March 12
It wasn’t the toll from lugging a heavy tool box to work that finally sent Ray Clark to the gym. It was something more profound. He lost his wife of 67 years. Then he lost his daughter. He was looking for something to fill the empty hours.
“I was getting a little lazy at home, and I decided I’d go down to the exercise club,” he recalled.
At 102, Ray Clark stays fit with the help of Thom Hunter, his 70-year old fitness trainer.
That was more than three years ago, when Clark was 98. As he turned 102 last week, Clark was able to curl 40 pounds, work out vigorously on a rowing machine and deftly pluck bouncing eight-pound kettle bells from the air with the hand-eye coordination of a much younger man.
(More here.)
It wasn’t the toll from lugging a heavy tool box to work that finally sent Ray Clark to the gym. It was something more profound. He lost his wife of 67 years. Then he lost his daughter. He was looking for something to fill the empty hours.
“I was getting a little lazy at home, and I decided I’d go down to the exercise club,” he recalled.
At 102, Ray Clark stays fit with the help of Thom Hunter, his 70-year old fitness trainer.
That was more than three years ago, when Clark was 98. As he turned 102 last week, Clark was able to curl 40 pounds, work out vigorously on a rowing machine and deftly pluck bouncing eight-pound kettle bells from the air with the hand-eye coordination of a much younger man.
(More here.)
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