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Unit 126：Make age no barrier
第126單元：年齡不是障礙
Sharon Lear learned to downhill ski,a sport which had previously terrified her,in Colorado at the age of 38.
科羅拉多州的雪倫·李爾在她三十八歲時學會了先前令她恐懼的下坡滑雪。
Deborah Martin of San Diego,going on 60,spends her summer vacations riding her bicycle up and down the steep slopes of the Colorado Rockies.
圣地亞哥年近六十的黛伯拉.馬汀則利用暑假到科羅拉多州境內的落基山脈里陡峭的斜坡上騎越野腳踏車。
And then there's Manny Wein,now in his 90s,who has been running the 26-mile Los Angeles Marathon for the past five years.
接著是九十多歲的曼尼·韋恩在過去五年來都參加了長達二十六英里的洛杉磯馬拉松賽，
The rest of the time,he lifts weights,swims or dances.
其余的時間他則用來舉重、游泳和跳舞。
Contrary to old-fangled notions,your level of fitness can continue to grow throughout your lifetime.
和一些老舊的觀念不同的是，你的體能狀況在一生中可以持續地成長。
One weight-training program for men in their 60s and 70s showed that they were able to increase their muscle size by an average of 11 percent and their strength by 170 percent-after just 12 weeks.
一項針對六十余歲及七十余歲的人所做的重量訓練計劃顯示，在僅僅十二周后，這些人平均在肌肉的尺寸上增加了百分之十一，而在力道上則增加了百分之一百七。
