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The daily habits an active 85-year-old uses to “fight off old age”

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 …

“The sooner you start, the easier it is, but it’s never too late”—meet the 85-year-old redefining what it means to age well

“The sooner you start, the easier it is, but it’s never too late”—meet the 85-year-old redefining what it means to age well

Jim Owen, 85, is living, breathing, push-up repping proof that it’s never too late to get fit. Today he’s a 10-time gold medal winner at the San Diego Senior Games—an event that included a remarkable two-and-a-half minute dead hang. He’s also the filmmaker behind a three-part documentary series, “Virtuous Circle: A Geezer’s Guide to Successful Aging”, now streaming on PBS. Article continues below You may like But just 15 years earlier, a three-decade-long career on Wall Street and subsequent book tour had left his body broken. “When I turned 70 I was in god-awful shape,” he tells Fit&Well. “All the travel got to me—it damn near killed me. “Excruciating lower-back pain—I’m talking crawling-on-the-bathroom-floor kind of pain. My right rotator cuff was frozen. I had no energy at all. I said, ‘I’ve got to do something’.” Start your week with achievable workout ideas, health tips and wellbeing advice in your inbox. In that moment, Owen resolved to transform his life, spending the next decade reintroducing movement into his daily routine, building a foundation of strength and, …