Hi there, it's Martine.
I hope you're having a cozy weekend.
So all week, we have been sharing some of our favorite episodes from this past year.
And today, I wanted to share another inspiring one about how to get stronger as you age.
If you haven't heard it, I hope you enjoy it.
And if you have heard it already, share it with someone you love.
So this is a story from Maggie Penman.
She's a reporter for The Optimist here at The Post.
And she came across this research that basically found aging doesn't have to mean decline.
Lots of people can and will get stronger and healthier in their 60s, 70s, 80s, and beyond.
It's incredible.
All right, here's Maggie.
When Florian 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.