To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video. Up Next. Dick Van Dyke has revealed his tips for staying healthy at the grand old age of 99 years old. The Chitty Chitty Bang Bang actor doesn’t stop at strolls – nope, he’s into core exercises and is a bit of a gym bunny, too.
Speaking on Where Everybody Knows Your Name podcast with hosts Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen, Dick revealed his secrets to staying healthy approaching 100 – and it’s the gym, three times a week. He explained: ‘When you think… I go back to 1925, I’m almost 100. This is insane. I’m going to have a big party.
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‘Somebody said, “to what do you attribute your age and physical condition? and I said, “I’ve always exercised.”. ‘Three days a week, we go to the gym, still. Three days a week.’. Podcast host Ted recalled seeing Dick at a Malibu gym and said: ‘If I got there early enough I would see you literally work out on some weight machine.
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‘Then, almost like you were doing circuit training, you would not walk to the next machine, but dance. ‘You literally danced to the next machine and I watched that for a couple of weeks.’. Dick’s wife Arlene Silver, who joined him on the podcast, added: ‘He still does that!’.
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It’s not the first time Dick has told all about his gym routine, as he actually demonstrated a number of ab workouts on CBS This Morning in 2021. He told other people watching the years tick by to keep on going, as he’s still ‘singing and dancing’ – just like his character in the beloved 1968 musical.
