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At 80 years and 244 days old, Annie is proving you're only as old as you feel
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She has become a Guinness World Records title holder for the second time as she has become
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the oldest female to perform at a domino plank. She also holds the Guinness World Records title
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for oldest female competitive rope skipper. I couldn't believe it. I was just, I was in shock
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I know the record and I didn't have to jump rope. I was just so ecstatic
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Well, this part of my routine, my trainer always wants me to do a planking and I would only do
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like a minute just to satisfy him. I didn't realize that I was so fit and active until
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I started posting on Instagram. Everybody was telling me that I looked great. I couldn't
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believe it. They asking me for my birth certificate, but I get a lot of compliments
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and I love getting the compliments because it motivates me to keep going. I wake up a lot of people to get their body started moving because the important thing
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is you have to keep moving. You got to keep moving your body. If you don't move your body
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you'll lose it. I'm blessed that I am living at this age with no pain. To me, that's a miracle
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I used to always compete with my husband at the gym. He would love it when I compete against him
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I planked for seven minutes. I couldn't believe I did seven minutes. He only did like six minutes
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right? He loved it. As I was planking this time, I was thinking about him. I was thinking he was
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next to me and he was telling me, keep going, keep going. I tried to go five minutes, but I
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just couldn't. I couldn't go five minutes, but I did do four minutes of something, which was happy
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This is how Annie is preparing for her abdominal planking. We're going to go on the ground
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and we're going to place the forearms on the mat and toes on the mat
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It's really important for her to have her elbows 90 degrees. Shoulder has to be aligned with the
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elbow. Hip, shoulder and heel have to be aligned. That's why it's called plank. Very important. We
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don't want to touch the ground and we don't want to arch also the back. Everything has to be
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straight. We're going to push up right there. Jimmy, come a little bit more forward. Right
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there. Perfect. We want to be neutral here. We don't want to have arch in the back or be too low
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So as I said before, shoulder, hip and heel have to be aligned. Good job, Jimmy. I think age is just
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a number. I mean, you'd be surprised what people can do in their 80s now, in their 70s and 60s
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I feel like I'm much stronger as I got older. I feel like I have more energy all of a sudden
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I'll tell you one thing, after planking for four minutes, my energy picked up. I don't know if
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planking does that or not, but I got so much energy through planking. It feels wonderful
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I mean, it just gives me so much joy to be able to get another plank up here in my gym here
