Welcome to the Get Fit Guys, quick and dirty tips to slim down and shape up.

My name is Ben Greenfield. I'm the Get Fit Guy and in today's episode, I'm going to give you

five lessons I've learned from the fittest old men and women on earth.

A few days ago, I was reading an article on Vice, entitled The Healthiest Old Person

on the Planet, explains how to stay in shape, which introduces this guy named Charles

Eugster, who's 96 years old.

Charles is a decorated British sprinter.

He has world records in the 200- and 400 meter sprints and British records

in the 60 meter, 100 meter, and 200 meters sprints. Well, that's pretty impressive, considering that

most guys his age can barely walk across the street. They're even still alive. But that's not all.

Charles is also a bodybuilder, a public speaker, a writer, a rower, a wakeboarder, an entrepreneur, a fashion designer. He's planning his own line in elderly couture. He's even claimed that he's witnessed some of his white and gray hairs turned brown. And while I'm kind of skeptical of that last claim, I do know one thing. He certainly cracked the code on how to stay fit as you age. And this is a topic

near and dear to my heart, since I not only want to live a long time, but I want to look as good

as possible doing it and be able to have my brain and body work as optimally as possible, even if

modern society thinks I should be sitting in a rocking chair in a care facility watching Seinfeld reruns.

Well, in the GIFI guy episode, Can Seniors Get Stronger? And I'll link to that over at

quick and dirty tips.com. Just check out the show notes to this episode, episode number 283.

I addressed the common belief among exercise enthusiasts that at around 50 to 60 years old, people just lose the ability to get stronger.

Well, while it's correct that you can lose muscle as you age, a process called sarcopenia, new research also proves you can stave off this decline and quite significantly.

I've detailed in an article called How to Look Good and Live a Long

Time at Ben Greenfield Fitness.com, a research-based exercise program that does allow you to,

as you age, do things like maintain mitochondrial energy-producing capacity,

keep your metabolism elevated, increase your muscular endurance, and your lactic acid buffering capacity, and, well, look good naked as you age.

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