- Cherie Rohn, 79, took up fencing at 75. She also works out and does ballroom dancing.
- She shared some of her secrets to staying so active at almost 80.
- These include finding an exercise you love and not trying to be perfect all the time.
Cherie Rohn, 79, has a very structured week when it comes to workouts.
On Sundays, she does a fencing lesson. On Tuesdays, she works out “strenuously.” On Wednesday, she does a three-hour fencing session. She takes Thursday for stretching, and on Friday has a ballroom dancing lesson.
The freelance writer and editor based in Fort Myers, Florida, started fencing when she was 75 . She stumbled across online fencing lessons during a lockdown in November 2020, and has been doing it ever since.
Rohn has been active all her life and had done ballroom dancing for a decade before she took up the blade. But fencing is “the most strenuous thing I’ve ever done,” she said. “I have to work out constantly just to be able to do the sport.”
Cherie Rohn