Are you over 90 years outdated and really bodily energetic?

I’ll always remember the second I met 93-year-old DeLoyce Alcorn. It was final fall and he was within the midst of his weekly exercise on the Strength Shoppe in Echo Park. The retired aerospace engineer, then 92, was sporting a fitted T-shirt that learn “Be Strong. Be Resilient. Be You” as he strapped himself into the leg press machine.

Alcorn prolonged his legs, closed his eyes and inhaled deeply. Then he started slowly, determinedly, pushing 312 kilos ahead along with his toes, finishing a number of reps. (By distinction, I’m many a long time youthful and bodily match and at the moment push 220 kilos when leg-pressing.) Alcorn was inspiring, to say the least.

So is 71-year-old pole dancer, Mary Serritella, whom my colleague, Deborah Netburn, wrote about final yr. Performing underneath the identify Mary Caryl, Serritella contorts her physique into positions known as “The Chopstick,” “The Jade Split” and “The Black Sun Split,” whirling round a silver pole as disco music performs.

This previous May, I wrote a few group of comparatively older “vertical skateboarders,” Deathracer413, who consider that the harmful sport is their key to longevity. They’re not nonagenarians — most are of their 50s and 60s — however they’re doing perilous airborne tips, some nicely into senior citizenship. The adrenaline rush, they argue, retains their brains sharp.

Of course, getting older comes with inevitable bodily decline and different challenges. But people resembling Alcorn, Serritella and the Deathracers push in opposition to ageist stereotypes about how we should always dwell — and play — as we get older.

Are you at the very least 90 years outdated and nonetheless very bodily energetic? If so, we’d love to listen to from you.

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