running every morning<\/a>. After that, my heart could no longer handle the strain, so I stopped and switched to brisk walking instead.<\/p>\nAfter that, I focus on building my core and upper-body strength with a series of exercises on the horizontal and parallel bars. I finish off my routine by doing headstands with my wife.<\/p>\n
About 20 years ago, my wife and I began traveling regularly to Singapore to visit our daughter, who lives here with her family, and to spend time with our grandchild.<\/p>\n
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He started traveling to Singapore regularly about 20 years ago to see his granddaughter.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Our granddaughter has since graduated from university and no longer needs looking after, which means we are free to head out for walks and explore on our own.<\/p>\n
About 10 years ago, I was exercising at a fitness corner, doing pull-ups and dips on the bars, when a man approached me and struck up a conversation. He joined me for my workout, and we got to know each other.<\/p>\n
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Peng started doing headstands in his 50s. Here, he is doing headstands with fellow Team Strong Silvers member, Victor.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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He told me he was part of a fitness group for older adults and encouraged me to join. That was how I became a member of Team Strong Silvers. We are a group of older adults committed to keeping our bodies strong as we age.<\/p>\n
A lot of people don’t expect us to move the way we do, so we’re sometimes invited to healthy-aging workshops and exercise sessions to demonstrate our workouts and inspire fellow seniors to keep moving.<\/p>\n
This story is part of our Still Going Strong: Singapore series, which follows Team Strong Silvers \u2014 a group of Singaporeans 70 and up who stay fit while inspiring others to keep moving.<\/p>\n
If you’re over 70 and have a story to share about aging well, email this reporter at agoh@businessinsider.com.<\/p>\n
Now, my wife and I split our time between the two countries, typically spending half the year in Singapore during China’s colder autumn and winter months, and returning to China in the spring and summer.<\/p>\n
Staying active has spared me many of the aches and fatigue that often trouble older travelers. I rarely feel stiff on long flights or worn out after a full day of walking, and I credit years of regular exercise<\/a> for that resilience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Peng Lin Hua, an 86-year-old retiree in Singapore. It…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[589,163,85,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-353559","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fitness","8":"tag-fitness","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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