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PowerAging PowerAging is maximizing the Healthy Concepts of competitive Powerlifting to live a Stronger, Longer Life.

PowerAging offers remote and in-person coaching, training, programing, performance rehabilitation, injury diagnosis, and sports medicine consults

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👴🏻 Who said life stops at 90?

For most of us, the idea of hitting the gym in our 90s seems like a stretch. But for Svend Stensgaard, it was just another Tuesday.

At 93 years old, this Danish powerhouse didn't just watch from the sidelines. He stepped onto the world stage at the IPF Bench Press Championships.

His goal? To lift a staggering 80kg (176 lbs).

To put that in perspective, that is more than the average adult male can bench press in their prime. And Svend was doing it as a nonagenarian.

But the lift itself isn't even the craziest part of the story.

Just three years prior, at age 90, Svend suffered a heart attack while swimming and nearly drowned. 🏥

Doctors might have told him to take it easy. Society definitely expected him to slow down.

Svend had other plans. He recovered, got back in the gym, and rebuilt his strength rep by rep.

He often said he took up powerlifting because "regular retirement wasn't exciting enough."

His 176 lb lift didn't just break a record for the M90+ category; it shattered the glass ceiling of what we think is possible for the human body.

Svend proved that muscle doesn't know how old you are. It only knows resistance.

So the next time you feel "too old" or "too tired" to train, remember the Iron Old Man of Denmark.

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