{"id":67507,"date":"2025-07-16T15:25:02","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T15:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/67507\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T15:25:02","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T15:25:02","slug":"singaporean-pull-up-grandma-79-defies-age-with-her-fitness-feats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/67507\/","title":{"rendered":"Singaporean \u2018Pull-up Grandma\u2019, 79, defies age with her fitness feats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">People stare when Singaporean Charlotte Lim does her usual fitness routine. After all, she makes the hard work of pull-ups, chin-ups, push-ups, sit-ups, burpees, rope climbs and lifting weights look almost as simple as a walk in the park.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Known affectionately as \u201cPull-up Grandma\u201d or \u201cAuntie C\u201d, the retired anthropologist is stronger and fitter than most people half her age, able to do seven consecutive pull-ups and a weighted pull-up with 7.5kg (16.5lb).<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Yet 79-year-old Lim only started working out at the gym seven years ago after her daughter, Yan Lin, encouraged her to exercise with her instead of trying to do it on her own.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Lin and Lim\u2019s son, Tiat Lim, are both fitness instructors and co-founders of Bespoke Fitness, a gym and personal training business in a private housing estate in Singapore.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The siblings began to take fitness seriously after their father died of a heart attack at the age of 69.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">They developed FitRX, a customisable workout for all ages and ability levels. It includes warm-ups in the form of bodyweight callisthenics, traditional strength training and conditioning exercises, and cardio burst exercises (high-intensity interval training).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"People stare when Singaporean Charlotte Lim does her usual fitness routine. After all, she makes the hard work&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":67508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[47678,5091,47675,47683,1198,47679,210,47685,47684,9513,1724,47682,47674,3148,47677,10168,47681,47676,67,132,68,47680],"class_list":{"0":"post-67507","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fitness","8":"tag-anthropologist","9":"tag-burpees","10":"tag-chin-ups","11":"tag-constipation","12":"tag-fitness","13":"tag-fitrx-workout","14":"tag-health","15":"tag-high-cholesterol","16":"tag-hypertension","17":"tag-lifting-weights","18":"tag-osteoporosis","19":"tag-pesta-sukan","20":"tag-pull-ups","21":"tag-push-ups","22":"tag-rope-climbs","23":"tag-sarcopenia","24":"tag-sgmasters-track-and-field","25":"tag-sit-ups","26":"tag-united-states","27":"tag-unitedstates","28":"tag-us","29":"tag-workouts-of-the-day"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114863611834054998","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}