Olympic Legend Dara Torres: Age-Defying Fitness, Eating Disorders & Protecting The Next Generation of Gold Medal Talent
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I'm so competitive and once I'm in, like I'm all in and I'm gonna do whatever I can to be the best I can be. And the biggest thing that I learned just from my age and being in the sport for so long is listen to your body. I think you always wish you can do what you wanted to do when you were younger. And, you know, when your body needs a break, you need to take breaks. I'm a big believer in learning from people.
I think researching and learning what's going to work best for you is really important. The theme of age-defying athletic feats has been a pretty steady and recurring one here on this podcast. And pretty much from the beginning and across the pages of Finding Ultra, And it's sort of part and parcel of what I talk about when I talk about what it means to transcend the limitations we impose and imagine when it comes to what we are capable of doing with both our bodies and our minds. And insofar as this idea goes,
There is nobody more emblematic of it than today's guest because Derotores is the complete, absolute embodiment and pinnacle of age-defying athletic excellence, exceeding all labels, every expectation to essentially astonish the world by winning Olympic medals at an age that others presume to be just well past her expiration date. As many of you know, I was a competitive swimmer myself. And because Dara and I are basically the same age, she's somebody, this athlete that I first came across as a young teenager and basically this person that I can't even remember not knowing about. But for those
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