{"id":4737,"date":"2011-04-04T06:27:04","date_gmt":"2011-04-04T04:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ultimatefatburner.com\/?p=4737"},"modified":"2015-02-16T09:01:12","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T14:01:12","slug":"guardian-i-am-a-91-year-old-bodybuilder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/guardian-i-am-a-91-year-old-bodybuilder\/","title":{"rendered":"Guardian: &#8220;I Am a 91-Year-Old Bodybuilder&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow. I&#8217;ve often said that &#8220;you&#8217;re never too old to get into shape&#8221; &#8211;\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2011\/apr\/02\/i-am-a-90-year-old-bodybuilder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charles Eugster\u00a0is living proof<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Then at 85 I had a crisis. I looked at myself in the mirror one day, and saw an old man. I was overweight, my posture was terrible and there was skin hanging off me where muscle used to be. I looked like a wreck. I started to consider the fact that I\u00a0was probably going to die soon. I\u00a0knew I was supposed to slow down, but I&#8217;m vain. I missed my old body and wanted to be able to strut across the beach, turning heads.<\/p>\n<p>I was already rowing six times a week, and there didn&#8217;t seem any harm in pushing myself a bit harder to rebuild my muscles. So in my late-80s I joined a bodybuilding club.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;I&#8217;m not chasing youthfulness. I&#8217;m\u00a0chasing health. People have been brainwashed to think that after you&#8217;re 65, you&#8217;re finished. We&#8217;re told\u00a0that old age is a continuous state of decline, and that \u00a0we should stop working, slow down and prepare to die. I disagree. To me, a\u00a065-year-old is young. I turn 92 this\u00a0year. It is a frightening prospect \u2013 the law of averages is against me, and, yes, one day something will happen and that will be it. But until that day comes, I&#8217;m going to carry on working on my\u00a0abs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2011\/apr\/02\/i-am-a-90-year-old-bodybuilder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click over to the Guardian article<\/a> and check out his pic. He could easily pass for a man who&#8217;s 20 years younger, IMHO. Great job, Mr. Eugster!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow. I&#8217;ve often said that &#8220;you&#8217;re never too old to get into shape&#8221; &#8211;\u00a0and Charles Eugster\u00a0is living proof. Then at 85 I had a crisis. I looked at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,14,28],"tags":[1847,831],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4737"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9540,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4737\/revisions\/9540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}