Dick Van Dyke still tries to “hit the gym three times a week,” even as he nears 100 years old.

“I’m not a ‘wake up and go back to bed’ type just yet, unless it’s cold and rainy,” Van Dyke wrote in his book 100 Rules for Living to 100: An Optimist’s Guide to a Happy Life, published on Tuesday, November 18. “If I miss too many gym days, I really can feel it — a stiffness creeping in here and there in my joints.”

Van Dyke wrote that he has to “dangle” a few “carrots” in front of himself when feeling “sluggish and reluctant” on a gym day.

“[A] huge smoothie and/or frothy caffeine treat after my workout, full-body tingly exhilaration, sharper mind, sense of accomplishment to bask in for the rest of the day nap time [that is] well-earned, limber dancing in the days ahead,” he wrote.

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