Several online videos show elders--often late '80s or older--competing in triathlons and "iron man" competitions. This typically means swimming, cycling and running a half marathon.
When asked how he managed to do this at his advanced age, one man responded that you can ask your body to do things like stay healthy, and it will generally respond by doing it. You can ask your body to run a marathon or swim, cycle and run a triathlon, and it will do it.
Your body does what you ask.
So all we have to do to maintain our strength, endurance and flexibility is ... ask?
Obviously, the "asking" isn't always simple. Training to do physically stressful things like triathlons isn't trivial, but the persistent asking manages to improve even a natural process like aging. One elderly triathlete suggests "food, fitness and fun" are the keys to graceful aging.
Another question is, really, what are we asking our bodies to do now? A population of obese, out-of-shape humans, dying early of strokes, heart attacks and diabetes has been asking their bodies to adapt to unhealthy food and a lack of exercise. "The wages of sin is death," says Jesus. Amen, I say.
Where's the fun in that?
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