Rudolf Goetz effortlessly moves the weights up and down on the ab machine.<\/p>\n
Pushing 40kg (88lb) weights on the leg press are not a problem for the 100-year-old, either.<\/p>\n
\u201cMany others would be groaning under the weight at 50 or 60,\u201d says trainer and gym owner Marc Baldow with a laugh, as he watches his oldest member diligently go through his workout routine.<\/p>\n
Goetz trains twice a week at the gym in Fuerstenwalde, a small town east of Berlin in Germany, without making any fuss, despite his story having been lauded as \u201cincredible\u201d in the local paper.<\/p>\n
Rudi, as he is affectionately known, does not even change into gym clothes. He gets right into it, whether he is wearing a pullover or dress shirt, working out for about an hour.<\/p>\n
Maintaining strength in old age<\/p>\n
It is easy to assume that Goetz must be a former professional athlete or at least a gym teacher. In fact, he is a retired pastor who only began working out nine years ago after spotting one of the gym\u2019s fliers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rudolf Goetz effortlessly moves the weights up and down on the ab machine. Pushing 40kg (88lb) weights on…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":731521,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[38],"tags":[302587,45574,5739,26997,10932,302593,1198,24392,117,302594,115613,210,141086,30813,302591,302589,302595,302592,6012,13047,302590,302588,1236,132331,5841,67,132,68,26413],"class_list":["post-731520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fitness","tag-100-year-old","tag-balance","tag-blood-pressure","tag-centenarian","tag-endurance","tag-erika-rischko","tag-fitness","tag-flexibility","tag-germany","tag-gisela-raff","tag-guiness-world-record","tag-health","tag-how-to-age-well","tag-independence","tag-johanna-quaas","tag-marc-baldow","tag-marcel-werner","tag-oldest-gymnast","tag-physical-activity","tag-quality-of-life","tag-risk-of-falls","tag-rudolf-gotz","tag-running","tag-spatial-awareness","tag-strength-training","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-world-health-organization"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116413001056694637","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731520","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=731520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/731521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}