Today’s my birthday.  I’m 65.  
This morning I went to the gym at Patrick AFB (I’m retired military) and did 67 pushups in 90 seconds.  My goal was 65, so I’m ahead of the game.

Long ago, when I was 39, I set a goal.  I wanted to do 40 straight, PT-Test pushups in 90 seconds on my 40th birthday.  Since I could already do 30-some-odd, that wasn’t much of a problem and I did it easily.  Every year, I do the same thing, adding one pushup for each year.  It’s a good indicator that I’m staying in reasonable shape and making some progress.  I also do pullups, deadlifts, core exercises and other stuff, plus the treadmill.  

It may be hard to believe, but it doesn’t get harder from one year to the next.  The incremental gains are pretty small.  

It’ll be interesting to see how much longer I can keep this up.  I always keep going after the 90 second mark and can do 75-80 pushups in 2 minutes.  My personal best was 90, although it took me 2:15 to get there.  

The result of all this is that I don’t look and feel like the usual 65 year old guy you see at the mall.  At 5’9”, my chest is 43” and my waist is 30”.  I weigh 141 lbs.  I can do just about anything I could do when I was 35.  My cardiologist tells me that my chances of having a heart attack or a stroke are “just about zero”.  

See you next year!

Awesome!  We should all be as fit, regardless of age!

Well done, and hope you see many more good years!


 

That's awesome.  Happy Birthday

Well done Sir and very inspirational as well.  You've got 16 years on me and I'm sure I couldn't equal your accomplishment today.  I'll have to get to work.  

You have won at Life!

good on ya.. keep it up.  u are an inspiration to keep up the good fight and work out everyday.

Dude you rock

Happy Birthday to both of us

67 in 90s ........... nice

Good work. Never to old to stay in shape. I do also.

Awesome job!  wanna fight? Put up yer dukes!!!  Think I can take ya!!!  LOL....  Hope I can still do that when I get old.....

You'd smoke the shit out of the 20 year olds in my company