{"id":461644,"date":"2026-02-11T06:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T06:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/461644\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T06:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T06:26:08","slug":"how-83-year-old-can-do-300-pull-ups-in-under-40-minutes-and-why-he-trains-others-for-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/461644\/","title":{"rendered":"How 83-year-old can do 300 pull-ups in under 40 minutes and why he trains others for free"},"content":{"rendered":"

At 83, Charles Mammay starts most mornings the same way: a good long stretch as soon as he is out of bed, and then adjourning to his home exercise room.<\/p>\n

There, he reaches for a pair of 25-pound (11.3kg) dumbbells and begins his routine \u2013 shrugs, side bends, then down to the floor for 50 to 80 push-ups and flutter kicks to work his core. An overhang pulley on the door helps him stretch his shoulders; exercise bands add resistance.<\/p>\n

By the time most of his neighbours in Oak Island, in the US state of North Carolina, are pouring their first cup of coffee<\/a>, Mammay is already well into the first phase of a day that will include four to five hours of exercise, repeated six days a week.It is not unusual for him to visit two gyms in a single day \u2013 one for circuit training, another for bodybuilding<\/a> \u2013 after starting with 45 minutes of callisthenics<\/a> at home.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven with a bad heart, I keep going,\u201d he tells the South China Morning Post matter-of-factly.<\/p>\n

\"MammayMammay does pull-ups as part of this regular morning workout at the age of 83. Photo: Charles MammayIn 2014, during a cardiology check-up, he was told he had potentially serious issues and that if they were not corrected, he might have only two years to live. He was diagnosed with atrial fibrillation<\/a> \u2013 an irregular, often very rapid heartbeat \u2013 and now wears a pacemaker<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At 83, Charles Mammay starts most mornings the same way: a good long stretch as soon as he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[3005,215298,39545,141035,29529,215297,1115,674,337,215299,97,44625,215300,2256,215301,211621,13598,13600,61951,102564,46940,2024,2122,77607,195131],"class_list":["post-461644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fitness","tag-advice","tag-american-ninja-warrior","tag-atrial-fibrillation","tag-calisthenics","tag-cambodia","tag-charles-mammay","tag-elderly","tag-exercise","tag-fitness","tag-ginny-maccoll","tag-health","tag-laos","tag-motivational-fitness-coach","tag-north-carolina","tag-oak-island","tag-pacemaker","tag-pull-ups","tag-push-ups","tag-routine","tag-scmp","tag-strength","tag-thailand","tag-training","tag-us-army","tag-us-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}