Dick Van Dyke is 100 years old and continues to post videos that seem impossible.
The “Mary Poppins” actor appeared on Instagram this weekend lying face down on an inversion table, holding onto the handles and crossing his arms behind his back with complete ease. He was wearing a simple white T-shirt, gray sweatpants, and slippers, as if it were any afternoon in his backyard. The caption simply read “#keepmoving”, and that was enough to get thousands of people wondering how someone that age can move like that.
The key, as he himself explained on Ted Danson’s podcast, is something as simple as it is consistent: he has worked out three times a week for decades, alongside his wife Arlene Silver, combining stretching, sit-ups, and yoga. Van Dyke admits that old age has brought him problems with his eyesight, hearing, and mobility in his feet, but he says he refused to give in to “the failures, losses, and bitterness” that often accompany the passing years. His unusual routine is, in fact, the simplest explanation of all.