To ask.if your parents/grandparents do sport/exercise

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There was a lovely man on TV tonight on the news and he was going swimming at 97.
He was enjoying it so much and basically saying keep trying things and having fun.
It was a pleasure to watch him.
Do your parents or grandparents do Sport etc?Think it really does help to keep you fit if you can manage it.
97 what a nice age to still be swimming.

My parents are 75 and enjoy rock climbing and hillwalking. They have given up the high European mountains since they turned 70.
I'm proud they are still doing those things that they love so much, but I'd be lying if I said I don't worry when they're away in the alps etc.

My dad pretty much walks for a living. Don't remember my grandparents doing exercise.

My mum goes ice skating with me. She's 70.

We are struggling to make my dad slow down, he's mid-70s and due a knee replacement but still doing 3 hour dance classes and walking miles. But it's ok, he's given up the karate now - that's his argument, not mine! MIL doesn't leave the sofa though.

There used to be a man in his 70s/80s who used to swim at the same time as me - I would swim lengths, he'd be dive bombing in the deep end, swimming to the shallow end steps, walking to the deep end and jumping in again. That was at 9am - I dread to think what he did for the rest of the day if that was his warm up.

My dad and his partner keep active. They don't do sport in any real sense, but they go walking, my dad does lots of DIY, both mid 70s now and starting to have a few health issues but still fit and mobile. Stopped smoking probably 20 years ago.

My mum and step dad did none of those things, step dad died of a heart attack aged 60 and my mum had a stroke aged 70 after years of poor health.

My parents are early 70's and walk a lot. My mum is obsessed with swimming and goes every day.
My best friend who's a similar age does no exercise, and never has. But I managed to persuade him to buy a bike during lockdown and he loved it. Not had time to go out on it recently. But I'm
Working on getting him back on it.

My Dad was playing tennis well into his late 80s, he only gave up a few months before his death at 90. He also went swimming although that was challenging as he was getting dementia and it must have been difficult for the pool attendants when he lost his kit etc . He also couldn't cope with having to pay by card rather than cash when the pool went 'cash free'.
My Mum still does yoga at 90 and was complaining this week that a new exercise class she wants to go to clashes with yoga!
Unfortunately their enthusiasm for exercise and keeping fit has absolutely not rubbed off on me ... I am a total couch potato!

My parents are no longer alive but my father played tennis to a high standard up to his death (stroke) at 79. His local club have name a tournament after him.
My mother was a walker. She walked a few miles a day until her mid 80s, when she became increasingly infirm. Both were born in the 1920s.
No idea about grandparents as all died when I was very young.

My dad and all grandparents, no. But the sort of fit that comes from walking everywhere and working your butt off in the fresh air all day everyday. Organised sport very much something you might do before marriage but then too exhausted from work for the men, and dealing with disability for the women.
My mum before dementia went to aqua fit very regularly.
FIL (82) goes to the gym every morning.
In our cycling club there are guys in their 80's still knocking out serious distances

My inlaws are in their mid/ late 60's and have had lots of health problems so neither are able to exercise. My parents are a couple of years younger and are very active, especially my mum. She walks every day, does an online programme as well as several exercise classes. They regularly hike/ hillwalk. They have gone on hiking holidays including to Basecamp Everest a few years ago. They also cycle and ski. In a few weeks they will be walking around Vietnam and Cambodia.

good to read all these?

We are in our 70's and are actively looking for our next ski holiday. I also do yoga twice a week.

My Dad is in his 80s and mum 70s they walk a lot and mum does ballet.