What are the secrets to keeping your body strong and feeling young at 100 years old? A 100-year-old grandmother, despite her advanced age, is full of energy and insists on lifting weights every week. Besides weightlifting, she also shares 4 key longevity secrets and even reveals her top 5 favorite sweet treats.
According to comprehensive foreign media reports, 100-year-old grandmother Mary Coroneos was a university athlete, playing volleyball and basketball during her studies. She later earned a master's degree in education and has a highly competitive personality. After graduation, she worked as a teacher for decades. She became a single mother after divorcing young and held four jobs simultaneously to raise her children, even working as a waitress on weekends. Mary Coroneos recently shared her personal diet and lifestyle habits.
The grandmother's current exercise routine includes using light resistance bands, 2-pound dumbbells, and fitness equipment to perform exercises like seated rows, reverse flies, front pulldowns, and leg extensions. She adjusts her training based on her daily condition, incorporating sit-to-stand exercises, low-weight leg presses, hip adduction/abduction, seated leg curls, and recumbent bike workouts. She trains with a coach three times a week.
These full-body resistance exercises aim to strengthen her arms, legs, and core muscles, as well as improve her balance. Mary Coroneos says that while weightlifting is challenging and tiring, she feels great afterward. Living with her daughter Athena Coroneos, she feels energized by these training sessions, and her daughter describes her health as "remarkable." Her daughter emphasizes the need to push the coach for strict training to ensure her mother's core and leg strength remain strong, thereby maintaining her ability to stand and stretch, significantly reducing the risk of falls.
Mary Coroneos says that besides not liking fish, she is not a big eater and stops eating when full. When a reporter called for an interview, she was eating watermelon, one of the healthiest summer fruits. She also listed her daily diet as follows:
This centenarian grandmother is an avid reader and frequently uses her smartphone to access news and various information. She continued working until she retired at 70 and was still working as a substitute teacher at 90. She even drove herself until she was 95. She maintains a never-satisfied curiosity about life, keeping her brain active.
When asked about the key to healthy longevity, Mary Coroneos stated that loneliness, depression, and lack of purpose are major obstacles to a long life, and being with people is the core answer. She particularly enjoys interacting with young people, believing it injects vitality into her own life.
