Gym bunny Dick Van Dyke reveals his secrets to staying healthy at 99 years old

Dick Van Dyke has revealed his tips for staying steadfast at the expansive aged property of 99 years old.

The Chitty Chitty Bang Bang histrion doesn’t halt astatine strolls – nope, he’s into halfway exercises and is simply a spot of a gym bunny, too.

Speaking on Where Everybody Knows Your Name podcast with hosts Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen, Dick revealed his secrets to staying steadfast approaching 100 – and it’s the gym, 3 times a week.

He explained: ‘When you think… I spell backmost to 1925, I’m astir 100. This is insane. I’m going to person a large party. 

‘Somebody said, “to what bash you property your property and carnal condition? and I said, “I’ve ever exercised.” 

‘Three days a week, we spell to the gym, still. Three days a week.’

Podcast big Ted recalled seeing Dick astatine a Malibu gym and said: ‘If I got determination aboriginal capable I would spot you virtually enactment retired connected immoderate value machine. 

‘Then, astir similar you were doing circuit training, you would not locomotion to the adjacent machine, but dance.

‘You virtually danced to the adjacent instrumentality and I watched that for a mates of weeks.’

Dick’s woman Arlene Silver, who joined him connected the podcast, added: ‘He inactive does that!’ 

It’s not the archetypal clip Dick has told each astir his gym routine, arsenic helium really demonstrated a fig of ab workouts connected CBS This Morning successful 2021.

He told different radical watching the years tick by to support connected going, arsenic he’s inactive ‘singing and dancing’ – conscionable similar his quality successful the beloved 1968 musical.

The Mary Poppins actor’s words travel aft he was unit evacuated from his location aboriginal successful December arsenic the Franklin Fires struck Malibu – the blaze that came weeks earlier the caller LA fires.

Giving updates arsenic the occurrence ripped and died down again, Dick revealed helium and Arlene near unharmed, and returned to find their location thankfully afloat intact.

But it was a melodramatic clip for the seasoned actor, who revealed helium had to crawl to his car successful his escape.

In an interrogation connected the Today Show Dick recalled his neighbours rushing to his rescue aft helium ‘couldn’t get up’.

‘It was coming from implicit the hill, you could spot it,’ helium told the host. ‘And ohio my God, and we got retired of here.

‘I was trying to crawl to the car, I had exhausted myself, I couldn’t get up.

‘Three neighbors came and carried maine out, they came backmost and enactment retired a small occurrence successful the impermanent house, and saved me.’

Dick’s vocation has spanned much than 7 decades and earned him an array of awards including 4 Emmys, a Tony for Bye Bye Birdie and a Grammy for the Mary Poppins soundtrack.

He was inducted into the Television Hall Of Fame successful 1995 and has a prima connected the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

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