Plenty who are in good nick just want to get more flexible and mobile and stay that way into later life. On one of my first visits, big Damien Delaney, the former soccer international, is on his way out, suitably stretched. “Exercise for its own sake doesn’t do you any good,” John says. You are conditioning yourself.”First exercise John does every time is a simple lunge, repeated over and over, with bands. The wife, Suzanne, will admit to being a studious avoider of exercise regimes beyond the fundamentals of a good walk.

Source: Irish Examiner December 27, 2025 16:00 UTC