{"id":147762,"date":"2025-09-16T09:32:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T09:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/147762\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T09:32:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T09:32:09","slug":"this-100-year-olds-weekly-walking-and-cycling-routine-is-her-secret-to-longevity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/147762\/","title":{"rendered":"This 100-year-old\u2019s weekly walking and cycling routine is her secret to longevity"},"content":{"rendered":"

In case you needed more proof that age<\/a> is by no means synonymous with slowing down, take 100-year-old Ruth<\/a>, whose exercise routine sets an inspiring example of fitness<\/a> and vitality. <\/p>\n

Currently, Ruth’s schedule includes three gym<\/a> visits a week with her 78-year-old daughter, she tells Women’s Health, though they don’t exercise together \u2013 ‘we both do our own workouts’. Typically, each session involves:<\/p>\n

Riding the recumbent exercise bike [a bike that puts you in a reclining position, with support for your lower back<\/a>] \u2013 30 minutes, logging an average of 3 miles Rest \u2013 5 minutesRecumbent exercise bike<\/a> \u2013 30 minsRest \u2013 5 minutesWalk for a mile<\/a> and four tenths. ‘I try to keep building up by one tenth of a mile [about 160 metres] and am working towards a mile and a half.’<\/p>\n

Like many of us, Ruth relies on a home \u2013 indoor walking<\/a> \u2013 workout when the gym isn’t a possibility. ‘When I don’t go to the recreation centre, I still try and walk from one end of my house to the other. It’s 170 steps<\/a>, 40 times, which is 6,800 steps (3.22 miles),’ she explains.<\/p>\n

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Just after she retired, Ruth initially committed to walking 4 miles a day. ‘I did that until I had to get a valve replacement in my heart,’ she tells us. Since then, she’s switched to the routine above, with a shorter walk and more cycling. As for the motivation to start being active, she credits her husband: ‘He would tell me, “You go and walk, and I’ll fix dinner.”‘ <\/p>\n

‘A lot of exercise’ is just one component of her wellbeing practices, however. ‘I go to bed at 9.30 at night,’ she reveals. ‘I usually try and get anywhere between 10 and 12 hours.’ Unwinding beforehand is crucial, too. ‘I try at night to watch sports for an hour and a half or two before I go to bed, and that kind of relaxes me,’ she adds. ‘I like baseball, basketball, and tennis<\/a>.’<\/p>\n

When it comes to diet, she eats a lot of vegetables<\/a>, and counts<\/a> ‘toast, grapes, blueberries<\/a>, cranberry juice and a yoghurt’ as a typical breakfast. <\/p>\n

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Interview arranged by Evynn and Ryan at evry.day club<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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