Dara Torres on Fitness and Health
Swimming Olympian, Dara Torres is on the cover of this month’s More Magazine. The 42-year-old is still going strong and is currently training for the world championship in Rome this summer. Here’s what she said when asked how she would exercise if she wasn’t a swimmer:
“I’m not the type to ever want to find that out. If I was not swimming, I’d probably work out a few hours a day, do aerobics, weights, play tennis. It’s not just the way it makes me look; it makes me feel good inside.”
During the interview she admitted to struggling with food in her earlier years. She responded,
“I had an eating disorder in college, and I went for years restricting myself from specific foods, looking at labels. . . . It was a real dark thing in my life. I don’t think I would have had it if I wasn’t an athlete. I finally went to a doctor, who asked, ‘Do you make yourself throw up?’ And I said, ‘No,’ and then I felt horrible that I’d lied to her. I marched back in and told her the truth. She sent me to a psychiatrist. I threw up less, but it went on. When I decided to try for the 1992 Olympics, I knew I didn’t want to have this problem, so I stopped cold turkey.”
Dara also talked about being in her 40s. From the looks of her photo she looks better than most people in their 20s! Here’s what she had to say:
“I’m in the best shape of my life. I can’t do what I did when I was 20, as far as training, yet I can swim faster. When I’m standing on the blocks, I don’t think, oh, I’m 42 and these girls are 15 or 16 years old. I feel like an athlete; I’m one of them, and I’m going to compete against my competitors.”
Dara is a role model for women everywhere and of any age.
Celeb Diet Doctor…
Dara Torres definitely has everyone re-evaluating what is possible with advancing age. That she is able to compete at such an elite level with athletes 25 years her junior is unbelievable.
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