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":2,"featured_media":608085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[295734,64,63,75890,7548,295733,51994,295741,538,7591,5717,295742,295738,137,117943,6479,295739,295736,295743,295740,9941,29565,295737,295735,2434,108162,15207,18558],"class_list":{"0":"post-608084","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fitness","8":"tag-100-year-old","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-balance","12":"tag-blood-pressure","13":"tag-centenarian","14":"tag-endurance","15":"tag-erika-rischko","16":"tag-fitness","17":"tag-flexibility","18":"tag-germany","19":"tag-gisela-raff","20":"tag-guiness-world-record","21":"tag-health","22":"tag-how-to-age-well","23":"tag-independence","24":"tag-johanna-quaas","25":"tag-marc-baldow","26":"tag-marcel-werner","27":"tag-oldest-gymnast","28":"tag-physical-activity","29":"tag-quality-of-life","30":"tag-risk-of-falls","31":"tag-rudolf-gotz","32":"tag-running","33":"tag-spatial-awareness","34":"tag-strength-training","35":"tag-world-health-organization"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}