Mike Harrington during a recent training session. Photo: Rachel Kurtenbach

Exercise Advice from a Powerlifting & Planking 81-Year-Old

How this sedentary senior became a record-setting muscleman late in life

Robert Roy Britt
Nov 5 · 5 min read

Mike Harrington never bought any Charles Atlas products from the back pages of a comic book, but he thought about it. In high school, Harrington was a 5-foot-8, 132 pounder. He didn’t play any sports, other than golf. “I never competed in…

Robert Roy Britt

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Explainer of things, former editor-in-chief of Live Science and Space .com, author of the science thriller “5 Days to Landfall.”

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