How to get stronger as you age

如何随着年龄增长而变得更加强壮

Post Reports

2025-10-25

11 分钟
PDF

单集简介 ...

Today on “Post Reports,” Optimist reporter Maggie Penman shares the new science of aging, and a hopeful research finding that getting stronger and healthier in old age is possible for many of us – even after a health setback.  If you want to hear more stories like this, please let us know. You can reach the whole team at podcasts@washpost.com or email Maggie at maggie.penman@washpost.com. Today’s episode was reported and produced by Maggie Penman. It was edited by Allison Klein and Ted Muldoon who also mixed the show. The Optimist has a newsletter! Subscribe here. And, subscribe to The Washington Post here.
更多

单集文稿 ...

  • When Florine Schuber was in her early 80s, she hadn't experienced a lot of older people have.

  • She started falling.

  • The one thing that old people don't realize when they fall is they don't know they're falling until you're about this far from the ground.

  • And I found it pretty frightening.

  • Florine fell two or three times.

  • Thankfully, she didn't get hurt.

  • But she did realize something had to change.

  • So there was a small gym near where I lived.

  • And I had passed it for 13 years, I'm embarrassed to tell you, and never went in.

  • But I thought, OK, I've got to do something about this.

  • So I walked in, told them my problem,

  • and they introduced me to a young trainer, and I'm still with him.

  • Florine is 91 years old now,

  • and she spent a lot of time over the last decade working on her strength and flexibility and balance.

  • She says she feels younger now than she did 10 years ago.

  • So you can improve.

  • And I see it in myself for sure.

  • I'm much, much stronger than I was 10 years ago.

  • So I know that's possible.

  • I'm surprised at how much interest I have in the world and in courses and it's exciting.