{"id":645479,"date":"2025-12-21T03:40:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T03:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/645479\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T03:40:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T03:40:19","slug":"how-strength-training-keeps-a-71-year-old-in-top-shape-and-what-he-teaches-other-seniors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/645479\/","title":{"rendered":"How strength training keeps a 71-year-old in top shape and what he teaches other seniors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">After wrapping up a successful, decades-long career in the car industry two years ago, Christer Ekberg could have chosen to spend the rest of his days like many other retirees, putting his feet up and enjoying a well-deserved break.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Instead, the 71-year-old former chief operations officer of Eurokars Group Singapore, who has lived in the city state since 2001, dedicates his time to helping seniors stay strong, fit and active.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A certified personal trainer, Ekberg has always been passionate about health and fitness. Born and raised in Sweden, he rode horses on his grandfather\u2019s farm in the north of the Scandinavian nation.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">He wanted to be a professional jockey, but ended up working for global carmakers \u2013 including Porsche \u2013 in Europe, the Middle East and the Asia-Pacific region.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ekberg in Argentina. Growing up in Sweden around horses, he once longed to be a professional jockey. Photo: Christer Ekberg\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/fc50c844-6242-47ea-8eb8-12bd5cf39bb4_40d779b6.jpg\" title=\"Ekberg in Argentina. Growing up in Sweden around horses, he once longed to be a professional jockey. Photo: Christer Ekberg\"\/>Ekberg in Argentina. Growing up in Sweden around horses, he once longed to be a professional jockey. Photo: Christer Ekberg<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">His stressful job involved frequent overseas travel, yet Ekberg, who is married with two children, says that he always made fitness a priority.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI travelled a lot in the early part of my career between the 1980s and 1990s. Very few hotels back then had a gym, so I\u2019d <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/health-wellness\/article\/3123257\/yogis-quarantine-workout-yoga-poses-body-weight-exercises?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"noopener\">work out in my room<\/a>, doing weight-bearing exercises like push-ups, sit-ups and squats. For cardio, I\u2019d jog or run outdoors,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After wrapping up a successful, decades-long career in the car industry two years ago, Christer Ekberg could have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4322],"tags":[198114,198113,1707,198111,198116,600,1630,105,198112,198115,5733,2185,101683,2143,14265,4713,812,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-645479","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fitness","8":"tag-advances-in-nutrition","9":"tag-asia-pacific-region","10":"tag-cardiovascular-disease","11":"tag-christer-ekberg","12":"tag-eurokars-group","13":"tag-facebook","14":"tag-fitness","15":"tag-health","16":"tag-how-to-age-well","17":"tag-joel-tam","18":"tag-mobility","19":"tag-porsche","20":"tag-sarcopenia","21":"tag-singapore","22":"tag-sports-medicine","23":"tag-strength-training","24":"tag-sweden","25":"tag-uk","26":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115755485475289245","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645479","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=645479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}