The daily habits an active 85-year-old uses to “fight off old age”
At 85 years young, Jim Owen believes he’s only getting better with age. Technically, he’s only really in the early stages of his fitness journey, having gone from a “35lb overweight couch potato” at 70 to a 10-time San Diego Senior Games gold medal winner. Those past 15 years have proven to him that it’s never too late to take control of your health and fitness, and he’s spreading the message with a short film, The Virtuous Circle: A Geezer’s Guide to Successful Aging, which premieres on PBS on May 17. Latest Videos From You may like Now, the former Wall Street executive has a set of daily rituals or habits he adheres to, which he believes help him “live young” and “fight off old age”. 1. He starts the day with shadow boxing Owen starts every day the same way: he looks in the mirror, puts his hands up and starts throwing jabs. “It’s the first thing I do every morning,” he tells Fit&Well. “Call me crazy. I do shadow boxing. I’ve got boxing …

