Welcome back to Get Fit Guy, coach Kevin Don here.

Destroyer of fitness fallacies.

This week, I received an interesting email from a listener that I thought would make a good

episode, so let's get into it.

Mary emails in to say, Kevin, I love the podcast and your own take on it. I'm always

learning something new. I recently read a book that introduced an idea to me called the

centenary and decathlon, not a literal decathlon for the extremely old, but the 10 events.

You personally would like to do as you get old. For example, you

might include getting up from the ground by yourself if you fall, or avoiding such a fall-through

and plurriluvred reflexes when you stumble. Then you have to train for those events as much as you

would for a marathon, a through hike or powerlifting competition, only you need to train over the course of decades

instead of weeks or months. The author includes some of his individual hobbies like archery

in his own sententenary indecathlon and other interests, such as being able to carry a grandchild

or dash through an airport to make a connection, might be individual, important lifestyle goals for different people.

What do you think would be worthwhile events to train for?

And how would you train for them or help someone else train for them whilst still middle age?

Mary, thanks for the great email.

I feel it embodies everything I've been discussing around fitness.

That is the idea that

fitness is the absence of disease or injury, and that functional fitness, rather than being the

latest buzzword, is actually the expression of a defined physical function. The centenary

in decathlon came about through the idea not of forecasting one's physical future, but by

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