Colonel John Dagless told the BBC: “One of the things we often say so many times is, ‘I hope I’m half as active and as fit as Barry is at 79’.” <\/p>\n
One attendee said she “loves” his fitness sessions. <\/p>\n
“His last one, well, emotional that’s all we can say. I am emotional,” she added.<\/p>\n
Another man who came down for the final session said it “was an honour” to be there. <\/p>\n
“Ten years ago he trained me to climb a mountain,” he said. “I’m still coming to his sessions and thrilled to be here today.” <\/p>\n
Mr Atkins spins twice a week, does his own circuits and heads out into the hills on his mountain bike, all things he will continue in retirement. <\/p>\n
“My wife is very physically active as well and she’s 80. We’ll go to the gym together and if i don’t want to do Zumba I’ll go and do some weights.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Colonel John Dagless told the BBC: “One of the things we often say so many times is, ‘I…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4322],"tags":[1630,105,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-212413","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fitness","8":"tag-fitness","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114742528840918687","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}