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Speaker 1: Sharing on MERV Grua as he attempts a world record

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Speaker 1: row and support of Dementia New Zealand. So this is

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Speaker 1: happening tomorrow at Fit for Life gym in the Ellington

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Speaker 1: Shopping Complex. He's already a New Zealand record holder for

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Speaker 1: the eighty five to eighty nine age group, blew out

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Speaker 1: ninety candles earlier this week, which means he now qualifies

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Speaker 1: for that age group and he's going for the world records.

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Speaker 1: We've heard a bit from MERV this morning and if

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Speaker 1: you missed the ants, you'll be able to catch up

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Speaker 1: on our podcast which we loaded on iHeartRadio a little

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Speaker 1: later this morning. Also called a word with his personal

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Speaker 1: trainer and that Angus at Fit for Life.

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Speaker 2: Is an absolute inspiration to us all everyone that season

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Speaker 2: when it comes into the gym, they just love them

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Speaker 2: and they love what he's doing, and even more so

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Speaker 2: for the cause that we've now added into that that

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Speaker 2: Marks as well has just taken it to the next level.

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Speaker 2: He's very Westy, great character and the belief in himself

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Speaker 2: and the belief we have in him is huge. So

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Speaker 2: we do a bit of strength training in the gym

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Speaker 2: with nerv just to make sure that his muscles and

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Speaker 2: joints are strong, but also to get his nervous system firing.

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Speaker 2: It's the fast twitch fibers that we're trying to activate

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Speaker 2: because he's doing one hundred meters. It's a sprint, and

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Speaker 2: so we want to prime his muscles to be fast

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Speaker 2: but also strong and powerful. You'd be surprised by what

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Speaker 2: people can do at any age once they've done a

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Speaker 2: bit of training. I think that answers your earlier question

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Speaker 2: about taking it for granted, is that it becomes so

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Speaker 2: much more important as we get older, and you do

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Speaker 2: probably realize that for Merv, he's been training and doing

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Speaker 2: exercise his whole life. As he said, it's part of

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Speaker 2: his life, just like it is for myself. When you've

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Speaker 2: been training for that long, it just becomes a part

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Speaker 2: of your life. But for those that possibly aren't going

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Speaker 2: to a gym or aren't doing any exercise, they're the

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Speaker 2: ones that notice that difference because when they start exercising

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Speaker 2: and training in the gym and doing strength training and

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Speaker 2: balance training, they see the difference firsthand.

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Speaker 1: Are you confident he can do it?

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Speaker 2: One hundred percent confident in Merv? I know that he

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Speaker 2: can do it, and I've seen what he can do

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Speaker 2: and it's absolutely amazing. You're old when you're ninety and

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Speaker 2: you can't get out of a cheer. Move can get

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Speaker 2: out of a cheer. He's not old yet, well more

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Speaker 2: than just get out of a chair. But he is

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Speaker 2: going to be settled up on the rower tomorrow from

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Speaker 2: three pm. He gets three attempts on the half hour

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Speaker 2: and there's going to be a few festivities and the

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Speaker 2: donation bucket for dementia down there as well. So they

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Speaker 2: would love your company to cheer them on. Go Move

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Speaker 2: from three o'clock tomorrow