AL LAMB: My name is Al Lamb.

I consider myself an amateur athlete.

I'm 81 years old and enjoying life to the fullest.

I exercise every day and I'm always looking for a challenge.

One of the things I do to, to stay active, stay healthy I participate and train to participate in the Northern Virginia Senior Olympics.

I've been fortunate and had the good fortune to win a couple of medals over those years.

A bronze medal for the 800 meter walk and a silver medal for the 5K walk.

The goal is to win a gold medal.

And so I've got to step it up.

My new routine is to walk every day two miles, to swim every other day.

On the days that I swim, I swim a quarter of a mile.

Sometimes I'll do half a mile.

And the day that I don't swim, to go to the gym for a hour, hour and a half.

I'm training.

I'm not, it's not a casual affair for me and people that walk want to walk with me or want to go to the pool, when I go to the pool, they want to socialize.

I'm not there to socialize.

I'm there to train.

Every day is a training day for me.

I'm a vegetarian.

When I became a vegetarian I learned to cook and I enjoy all of my meals.

I eat four greens usually a day as dinner: broccoli, asparagus.

It doesn't matter which four, but I try, try to keep it to four veggies.

Dijon sauce man, it really, really makes a difference.

I, I decided to become a vegetarian.

When I injured my back in 2010.

I decided to shovel the snow on my deck.

I could barely stand up straight.

For the next nine months, I would have muscle spasms day and night.

In recovering from the back injury I found this training class, Strength Training for Seniors and one of the things I was instructed to do is go to the mall, walk for five minutes, rest for three minutes.

It led to me being able to walk for an hour and now I walk an average of two and a half to three miles every day.

Four Seasons, Historic Virginia.

For me, it's a haven.

The people here are very interesting and many of them are like myself, are motivated to exercise.

They're, they're health-oriented.

It's a health-oriented neighborhood.

BEVERLEY FELTAULT: This community is really geared for us, and it's fun.

It can be fun.

ED HOLDER: He's just an inspiration to all.

I hope to be as nearly as good a shape as he is when I'm in my eighties.

AL LAMB: I, I want to win.

I want to win gold this year.

I want to win gold before I leave this world.

What I would say to any senior at any age, ‘You got to start somewhere.

You're not going to get healthier, feel better, get fit and feel like I do at 81, better than I did when I was 68.

You got to start somewhere.

I am extremely happy.

I feel better, stronger, healthier today than I felt when I injured my back.

Exercising has a healing power, and the healing power of exercise can help me stay strong, healthy, and fit and that enables me to do the things I enjoy doing to enjoy life, reading, listen to music studying the new technologies, AI, VR... Oh yeah, she's good.

And I, and it just motivates me to get up to the next day and start doing that again.

I just love it.