- Jim Owen, the former investment manager, was directed towards the target but was unable to find the motivation for exercise.
- At the age of 70, he had “painful” back pain, so work began.
- From scratch, he is now competing in fitness competitions, lost 35 lbs, and repaired back pain.
In 70, Jim Owen could not pay one.
Owen has achieved a 35 -year -old profession in Wall Street Investment Management, wrote a selling book on improving industry, and toured a 10 -year tour with 300 stations around the United States. But his engine did not translate into his physical health.
The approved sofa potatoes were “weak”, and he told Business Insider.
“I couldn’t bring myself to exercise. I don’t know the reason. My whole life was directed towards the target, but for some reason, I could not get out of the sofa,” he said.
By the age of 70, he was highlighting the lower back pain. “I thought, if I felt this bad in the seventy, how bad I feel in 85?” He said.
So he decided to make a change. He started walking for 30 minutes a day, and while he gradually got a boat on walking at a time training session.
Now 84 and 35 lighters are lighter, Owen for an hour of strength training three times a week, using free weights and machines in the home gym, and three duration 45 minutes a week at an extensive pace enough to make it breathing.
Owen did not practice before the age of seventy, but he slowly increased his fitness by walking and training force.
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He can do more than 50 exercises, he no longer suffers from “terrible and painful back pain”, and said he had a lot of energy as he did twenty years ago.
Last year, Owen won gold in all ten events in an 80 -year -old arc in the great San Diego games. This squatting included most of the box that was made with Kettlebell in one minute, the longest suspension of the bar, the fastest time to pay 90 pounds of jumps 50 yards, and the most jumps that are made in one minute with the jump rope.
He said that his best days are still lying on him. To encourage other elderly to adopt the same situation, he wrote a book and produced two documentary films on healthy aging and success as a greater adult. He is also an ambassador for fitness in his retirement village, the sixth in La Jolla in San Diego, where he helps members of society learn how to use gym equipment and helps organize fitness events.
“I am in the field of inspiration today. I do not receive salaries for that but it does not matter – I go out more than this, I think, from the people who take my advice. I am in the stage of” paying it “from my life.
Owen shared his advice to others who want to be fit as it is in 84.
Owen wants to encourage other elderly to get their physical fitness. He is an ambassador for fitness in the sixth in La Jula, the supreme living community where he lives.
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1) Start slowly, whatever the level of your fitness
Owen said, “It has not been too late for fitness,” Owen said.
One of the studies he conducted in 2023 by researchers at Duke Kunshan University, China, found that participants between the ages of 80 years and over who were physically active tend to live longer than those who were not – even if they were exercising later in life.
Owen said: “I tell people that this brand is new, just work from 20 to 30 minutes. Don’t feel that you have to work the way I do,” Owen said. “I am a competitive athlete today, but I was not at first. I enjoyed the glorification and competition against myself – I am trying to do better than I was last month, that’s all.”
If you are new to exercise, Brian Goldberg, a personal coach, told previously that the “slow” slow and fixed “start” will make it easy to maintain the long term.
2) Exercise constantly
“There is no quick return,” Owen said. “Just do what you can, and be consistent. If you think three times a week is suitable for you, there is nothing wrong with that.”
This is in harmony with what experts told by BI, including Nathan K. Lebraseur, a physicist and researcher in healthy aging, who said that the best type of exercise will do it constantly.
3) Relationships are the key
Owen said that social relations “are all important when you are older.”
This opinion shares with Rose Ann Kenny, a professor of aging at the Trainte College in Dublin, who said that social participation is no less important than the age of factors such as a good diet, and non -smoking.
Owen’s wife, Stania Owen, is the lessons of Tae Chi and Zumba. He believes that marrying her for 56 years has gave him emotional strength and helped him to stay decent, because he does not want to become physically dependent on her.
“It is an angel. I will not bear with me for a month,” he said. “I am grateful because we are lucky to be our health and relationship.”
