Diana Nyad

But at 76, they have not slowed down.

You are so lucky.

I lift the same amount of weights.

But you know what?

It's not luck.

It's because maybe there's some genetics.

Maybe that's lucky.

But when I was five years old until now, 76, I never had a day off.

You know, I've always sort of honored, what do they call it, the temple of the body.

And so I've always been in motion and pushing hard and being fairly extreme.

So it's not just I arrived at 76 and, oh, you're so lucky to feel good.

I worked at getting to feel this good.

Every day.

I mean, you know, I've had a couple of flus through the years.

I've been on planes, you know, for 20 hours at a time.

But even there, even in the airport lounge, you know, I'll go to a corner and, you know, knock off several push-ups and sit-ups and sit on the wall and, you know, all that.

So never a day goes by that I'm not in some kind of motion, if not intense for hours if I have that time, but just a little something every single day.

What about the idea of rest?

No.

You know, when you're training hard, if you're an athlete really training for something, rest is part of the equation.