Sam Bryant
Seventy-year-old Sam “Sonny” J. Bryant is a champion bodybuilder from Georgia. The iron-pumping pensioner has pecks that men half his age would only dream of and he has no retirement plans just yet. He works out twice a day, at night he works as a forklift truck driver, and the only thing he takes for energy are his vitamins. “People ask me when I’m going to retire. I say ‘never.’ More people die retired than people do working. I love to work. I love to work out. I’ve been doing this for 27 years.”
Vivian Stancil
After her mother died when she was 7 years old, Vivian Stancil was raised in foster homes. Then, as a 19-year-old mother of two young kids, she developed a nerve condition and lost sight in both eyes. She didn’t allow these obstacles to stop her and went on to become the first blind teacher in the Long Beach, California, school system. In her early 50s, she decided to try to lose weight by swimming even though she was terrified of deep water. She stuck with it and lost 125 pounds, and she’s qualified for every National Senior Games event since 1995. To date, she has won more than 100 medals.
