{"id":637490,"date":"2026-06-14T00:51:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T00:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/637490\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T00:51:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T00:51:11","slug":"my-87-year-old-mum-still-plays-golf-and-cycles-heres-how-we-stay-fit-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/637490\/","title":{"rendered":"My 87-year-old mum still plays golf and cycles. Here\u2019s how we stay fit together"},"content":{"rendered":"

At 87, my mother Edith Osborne spends her days golfing, cycling and walking in Waterloo, in Ontario, Canada, where she lives with her 94-year-old husband. She has always been active. When my three siblings and I were growing up, she grew vegetables in the garden and made all of our family meals from scratch, including spaghetti bolognese and shepherd\u2019s pie<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After retiring as a school teacher 20 years ago, she began splitting her time between Canada and Florida<\/a>, and even into her 70s, we would cycle for hundreds of miles together and roller-blade along Florida\u2019s sprawling east coast.<\/p>\n

As a personal trainer and nutritionist, I\u2019ve helped her maintain her strength and independence over the past three decades, exercising and eating healthy, homemade meals together. I even recorded a workout for her on a VHS tape: it was a 30-minute step-and-strength routine she followed five days a week. Later, we progressed to more traditional strength training<\/a>, with exercises including bicep curls<\/a> and dumbbell raises<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why I was so shocked two years ago when, during one of our workouts, my energetic mother struggled to stand up from the floor without help. It was a reminder that even my fit and active mum was experiencing age-related changes in strength, mobility and balance. In many ways, it became a turning point for both of us.<\/p>\n

A new approach<\/p>\n

For most of my career, my focus was on traditional strength training. But that moment with my mum made me realise that mobility, balance and functional movement deserve just as much attention, particularly as we age. The goal was no longer strength for its own sake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At 87, my mother Edith Osborne spends her days golfing, cycling and walking in Waterloo, in Ontario, Canada,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":637491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[5079,13888,1167,6647,177580,102,2281,215328,94174,5438,8764,56,54,55,157732],"class_list":["post-637490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fitness","tag-ageing","tag-conditions","tag-exercise","tag-fitness","tag-gym-exercises","tag-health","tag-health-and-fitness","tag-health-and-fitness-faqs","tag-home-workout","tag-standard","tag-strength-training","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-us-content"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}