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USA Today January 29, 2023

一名美国的百岁人瑞，声称“运动胜过良药”，靠运动维持健康。他每周会开车到健身房报到5次，每次运动3小时，自1983年开始，40年不曾间断。

综合外媒报道，独自住在美国宾州汉诺威（Hanover）的赛维诺（Les Savino），去（2022）年刚庆祝百岁生日。他在接受媒体访问时指出，他已经100岁了，但他还是会逼自己去健身房，因为他知道为了享受人生，必须要靠运动，他也声称现在的生活跟30岁时如出一辙，几乎不受老化影响。

对于运动，赛维诺有一定的程序。他总是在早上7点30分抵达健身房，10点30分离开。每逢周一、三、五，他会使用15台机械式器材（Weight Machines）做重训，每台操作45下。周二和周四，他则以有氧运动为主，包括在跑步机上走3公里和骑12公里的飞轮。他自1983年开始，就维持这样的运动量至今。

赛维诺指出，运动让他感觉很舒畅。当他做完3小时运动，离开健身房时，总比抵达时感觉更畅快。他的柔软度更好，对生活也更有动力，使他认为“运动胜过良药”。

报道指出，赛维诺从未罹患癌症或心脏病等重大疾病，但他近年罹患梅尼尔氏症（Menieres disease），有平衡问题，行走时会使用助行器。

Man, 100, works out at the gym every day: 'Exercise is better than medicine'

For anyone who needs motivation to exercise, meet 100-year-old Les Savino who drives himself to the gym most days of the week for a three-hour workout.

“I don’t feel like going now that I’m 100, but I still go. I know that it’s necessary if I want to enjoy life. Most people at 100 no longer enjoy life. My days are just as normal as when I was 30,” Savino, who lives independently in Hanover, Pennsylvania, tells TODAY.com.

“Exercise is much better than medicine… A lot of people just live on pills, but I don’t. I take pills for high blood pressure and that’s the extent of it.”

avino lifts weights on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. He uses 15 weight machines and does 45 reps on each, amounting to almost 700 reps per session.

Tuesdays and Thursdays are for cardio. When TODAY.com called, the great-grandfather had just finished riding 8 miles on a stationary bike, walking 2 miles on a treadmill and squeezing in some bonus leg, arm and shoulder exercises.

He’s been doing that routine at the Hanover Area YMCA since 1983, always arriving at 7:30 a.m. and finishing at 10:30.

“It makes me feel good,” Savino says. “When I leave the gym in the morning after my three hours of exercising, I feel much better than when I arrived. I have more flexibility and I just feel more motivated with life.”

Savino has never had a major illness like cancer or heart disease. But he’s been having balance problems in recent years due to Ménière’s disease, a disorder of the inner ear, and uses a walker.

The centenarian has a sharp mind and memory, chatting with ease and humor when a reporter called. He credits his incredible longevity to both good genes and a healthy lifestyle.

Here are some of the highlights from the conversation:

Be thankful for good genes

Both of Savino’s parents were born in Italy. “They came to this country very poor so they didn’t have many opportunities to go to doctors, but they survived extremely well,” he says.

His father lived to be 84 and his mother to 89.

Eat in moderation

Savino says he’s not much of a meat eater, preferring seafood and vegetables. He also enjoys making a frittata, an egg-based Italian dish, once a week.

“A lot of people just gorge themselves on food. I just eat (until) my appetite is satisfied and then I stop,” he notes.

“I don’t look for any special food. I order everything off the menu like everybody else. But for some reason, I don’t have much interest in steaks and meat.”

Enjoy life

For his 100th birthday in August 2022, Savino bought himself a car — a Lincoln sedan that he’d previously leased. He drives himself to the YMCA and to the grocery store for his weekly shopping.

The great-grandfather says he has “an extremely dangerous sweet tooth” and indulges it modestly. He has a small dessert at lunch and after dinner, enjoying a cookie, licorice or chocolate pudding.

Savino also has two martinis every night. “Nothing too extreme,” he says of his alcohol consumption. “I don’t think I’ve ever been drunk in my life.”

Spend time with people you love

Savino was married to his high-school sweetheart, Barbara, for 70 years. Both were first-generation Americans — he from an Italian family, she from an Irish one. Mrs. Savino passed away 11 years ago at the age of 89. “We made a good couple,” he says.

They had four children. The oldest is 77 but Savino still calls them “kids.”

The great-grandfather has also had close friends throughout his life and still enjoys making new ones when he works out.

"I am very much an optimist, always have been. I look at the bright side of things," he says.

Find work you love

Savino worked until he was 83 and didn’t want to retire, but did so because his constant business travel bothered his wife.

He spent his career in the food industry, getting a degree in food technology from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1948. That was after he returned from military service during World War II, where he piloted B-17 heavy bombers.

When he came home, Savino worked for a corporation, then started his own consulting business, meeting with clients all over the world. “I loved it. I didn’t want to stop,” he says.

Stimulate your mind

It’s important to stay well informed and mentally involved, he says. Savino reads a lot, enjoying murder mysteries in particular because they’re challenging.

He’s always had hobbies, including creating stained glass, and building and refinishing furniture.

Take care of your body

Savino says he always watched his diet, lived a clean life and exercised. He never smoked.

“Every time I have my physical, the doctor says, 'I don’t know why you’re here.' That’s a good feeling,” he notes.

“I know I am lucky. That’s why I keep on doing what I’m doing. If I don’t feel like going to the gym, I go anyway because the gym has paid me back many times.”

Keep yourself on the smart side of life

“If you’re smart, then you live a clean life. You have to know what you can do that’s good for you,” Savino advises.

“If you develop a healthy lifestyle, you’ll go through life enjoying it. If you enjoy life, it preserves you. You want to keep on going. Here I am at 100. I don’t want to stop.”

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