The 61-year-old Liang Yuxiang (梁钰祥) from Chengdu has become the latest Weibo sensation. The six-pack-granddad has become an online celebrity now that different Chinese media have published his pictures. But besides a hot body, Liang also has an inspirational outlook on life.
Liang Yuxiang has made the headlines in China.
Chinese state media outlet People’s Daily posted about Liang on their Weibo account, saying that the grandfather loves exercising and car racing. He has already raced across the country, and now dreams of competing in the Dakar Rally: “The life of elderly should not only be about their grandchildren,” he says.
“Exercising is not a hobby, it’s a habit.”
Born and raised in Chengdu, Liang has worked in clothing factories when he was younger and started his own business in making lamps since 1991. Around 2000, he noticed he was getting out of shape, when an old friend advised him to take up exercising. Liang got so hooked on working out, that he even set up his own gym in his lamp factory, Chinese newspaper WCC Daily reports. Besides focusing on his own exercising routine, he also encouraged his staff at the factory to participate. “Many people see exercising as a hobby,” he says: “But I see it as a habit.”
“Only eat ’til you’re 70% full.”
Contrary to what you might expect, Liang is reportedly an absolute food lover with a specific preference for meat. Having had surgery for some stomach problems in the past, Liang is serious about his diet and always sticks to his golden rule: “Stop eating when you’re about 70% full.”
Besides this principle, Liang eats whatever he wants and snacks when he feels like it. “The body has a very strong self-regulating capacity,” he says: “So whenever you feel like eating something, it’s probably because your body needs it.”
“Determined to ride the Dakar Rally.”
According to his friends, Liang has only become younger and more lively since he started working out. His exercise routine has brought him both physical and mental benefits. According to WCC Daily, Liang is determined to participate in the Dakar races, known as the most dangerous in the world – he might do so in 2017 or 2018. “But first, my main goal in 2016 is to ride the rally from Moscow to Beijing,” Liang says.
Besides exercising and racing, Liang has another passion: paragliding. He took up paragliding in 2006, when he was doing a cross-country car rally in Europe and saw the paragliders in the Alps. He was so impressed that he immediately joined a club when he got back to Chengdu. It took him about a month to learn how to do it. He says: “Friends sometimes make of me saying I’m like some sort of amphibian sports fan, as I love both the ground and the air.”
“Granddad, you’re so hot.”
On Weibo, Liang’s pictures have attracted hundreds of comments, with many people taking Liang as a role model. “Good, good, good. Good figure, good body, good health. This kind of elderly people really deserve our praise,” one netizen says.
“Granddad, you’re so hot,” one another Weibo user comments. Another netizen says: “This is the kind of attitude towards life that people need.”
– By Manya Koetse
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