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I love to read inspiring stories about people who completely disregard what others see as a handicap, like Ernestine Shepherd. This lady started weightlifting at age 56! She is currently 80 years old and still competes as a bodybuilder! When most people start thinking of slowing down, she just started to hit her stride. Here's a quick little video about her:

Or take a look at the dad of FightTips coach Shane Fazen. Watch Mr. Fazen just kill it at the gym ... at the ripe old age of 55.

And who can forget the incomparable Jack Lalanne? Here is a great video showing him swimming on his 70th birthday pulling 70 boats in tow! He passed away at 96, but how many people in their 40s or 50s don't have the health of Jack Lalanne when he was 90? People like Lalanne and many others prove that age is just a number, and you don't have to listen to what other people think is a handicap.

I was a couch potato when I was in my 20s and 30s. But then my father died suddenly. I simply could not work through my grief, so my wife suggested that I take up running (she was already a power runner). It was quite the struggle to start walking, then jogging, then running.

But after about a month of doing this three days a week, I was hooked! (And, although I miss my father every single day, my exercise has been therapy and has helped me achieve "a sense of balance" whenever I think of him.) For the next 14 years I would run two or three miles three days a week. It was a good addiction that later saved my life.

In 2012, I found out that I had five almost complete blockages in my heart. (You can read the whole story here.) My doctors told me that I had a genetic problem the condition was not due to abusing my body. They also said that my running had so strengthened my heart that I was living on only 15 percent of its usage, and I did not even know it until almost the very end.

Exercise had kept me alive. When I came out of surgery I asked my surgeon, "What do I do to NEVER wind up with something like this again?" He told me "First, take your meds." (Check. That's easy.) "Next, eat right." (No problem, I've been a health food nut for almost 30 years.) "Lastly, exercise like a mad man." (Got it. I can do that.)

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Over 50 But Not Over the Hill A Diet and Exercise Plan for People 50 and Over - PJ Media

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