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Ten minutes that change how you think about age
New films added every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Every one features a real person, and we tell you why it earned its place.
Centurion Running Webinar - Running 200 Mile Ultramarathons
A Centurion Running webinar on running 200-mile ultramarathons, as its title describes it.
Why watch: Read our story about Steve James, who ran a marathon a day for 200 days around Britain's coast, then use the plan to build from back-to-back long runs to three days on a coast path.
Woman starts mountain biking in her 50s, showing it's never too late: "New outlook on life"
A CBS Mornings report from May 2025, in its "Never Too Late" series, on Ashley Smith, who took up mountain biking at 50 and now races, as CBS News describes it.
Why watch: Read our story about Girls Outside, the women's group that has ridden the trails above Snowmass Village together for nearly 15 years, then use the plan to go from a green trail to a weekly group ride.
Pacific Crest Trail Association 2026 Trail Information Webinar
A trail information webinar for the 2026 season, as its title describes it, for people planning a hike on the Pacific Crest Trail.
Why watch: Read our story about Nancy Zelick, who walked the Pacific Crest Trail from Mexico to Canada this year, then use the plan to build from long day walks to your first nights on a trail.
Flaw in the Enigma Code - Numberphile
A Numberphile film in which Dr James Grime discusses Enigma, the Bombe and Alan Turing, as Numberphile describes it.
Why watch: Read our story about Satoshi Tomokiyo, whose list of unsolved historical ciphers AI has begun to crack, then use the plan to break a cipher by hand and check an AI's answer.
Go Row Indoor 20 Min Workout
A 20-minute Go Row Indoor workout from British Rowing, published in April 2018, which mixes indoor rowing with circuit exercises for core strength and stability. British Rowing says it can be followed at home or in a gym, with or without sound.
Why watch: Read our story about Dave Bell, who rowed alone from Peru to Kenya without touching land, then use the plan to get from your first strokes to an hour of steady rowing.
Gallatin grandmother earns college degree after putting education on hold
A WKRN News 2 report from May 2026 on a grandmother from Gallatin who graduated from college after putting her education on hold.
Why watch: Read our story about Virginia Ordaz, who finished a degree she began in 1989 in the same class as her mother, then use the plan to find out what your own unfinished course is worth.
Repair Cafe "Building Resilience"
A short film about Repair Café, the non-profit where anyone can have a broken object fixed for free, published by Smile Films in June 2020.
Why watch: Read our story about Cincinnati's Tinker Team, volunteers who have mended nearly 1,400 cast-off appliances, then use the plan to find a repair event and make your first fix.
The Mighty North Pacific - reflections from the Clipper Race on an incredible ocean crossing
Reflections from the Clipper Race on crossing the North Pacific, published on the race's own channel in March 2022. The race is sailed by crews who are not professional sailors.
Why watch: Read our story about Joanne Currie and Sue Smith, who crossed the Atlantic as Clipper Race crew this summer, then look at the plan for getting from the shore to your first night at sea.
Longest plank by a woman - Guinness World Records
The film Guinness World Records published of DonnaJean Wilde's 2024 record, when she held a forearm plank for 4 hours, 30 minutes and 11 seconds at a school in Alberta.
Why watch: She started with holds of a minute or so while her arm was in a cast. Read our story about her five-hour plank this month, then time your own.
Backyard astronomer contributes to world-first Saturn discovery
A news report on Trevor Barry, the former Broken Hill mine worker whose homemade observatory helped reveal a ten-sided wave around Saturn's south pole.
Why watch: He learned astronomy online, built his own dome and kept watching the same planet for years. Read our story about him, then go and find Saturn yourself: it is up most of the night this autumn.
Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa | Official Trailer | Netflix
The trailer for the Netflix documentary about Lhakpa Sherpa, the Connecticut-based climber who has reached the top of Everest more times than any other woman.
Why watch: She prepared for the mountain around ordinary jobs, walking to work and hiking the hills near home. A reminder that the training for something big can be very ordinary.
East Cleveland man becomes doctor after 25 years of owning his own auto repair business
The Cleveland local news report on Carl Allamby, who ran a car repair shop for 25 years, qualified as a doctor at 47 and became an attending emergency physician at 51.
Why watch: A change of profession that took years of night classes, not one bold decision. Useful if you are weighing up a qualification of your own.
Diane Morrisey Reveals the Surprises of Creating a Cookbook
Diane Morrisey, the self-taught Connecticut cook whose first cookbook came out when she was 58, on what surprised her about making it.
Why watch: She says she could not cook when she married. Worth hearing from someone who learned in her own kitchen and then had to write it all down for other people.
10,000 Birds and (Still) Counting: One Man's Global Checklist
Peter Kaestner, the first person known to have seen 10,000 species of bird, talks to a birding society about a lifetime of keeping a list.
Why watch: The record took decades of patient note-keeping, which is a method anyone with a notebook can copy.
Pacifica woman becomes first to swim to Farallon Islands from Golden Gate Bridge
The local news report on Amy Appelhans Gubser's open-ocean swim from the Golden Gate Bridge out to the Farallon Islands.
Why watch: A nurse in her fifties doing something nobody had done before. Watch it for the planning and the crew as much as the swim.
Why bodybuilding at age 93 is a great idea — Charles Eugster at TEDxZurich
The late British-Swiss dentist took up bodybuilding at 87 and argues, with some force, that age is no excuse.
Why watch: Fifteen minutes that dismantle every reason you've given yourself for not starting.
75-year-old fitness influencer shares how she learned to live happily
Joan MacDonald ('Train with Joan') on transforming her health after 70.
Why watch: She started overweight, on multiple medications and frightened. Watch what a patient, consistent programme did.
BBC's June 2025 interview with 114-year-old marathon runner Fauja Singh
The 'Turbaned Tornado', who began running marathons at 89, interviewed shortly before his death in 2025.
Why watch: Proof that a running career can start at an age most people consider the end of the road.
101-year-old Fauja Singh runs the London Marathon — Horizon: Eat, Fast and Live Longer
BBC Horizon clip of Singh on the London course at 101.
Oldest female competitive bodybuilder: 'Determined, Dedicated, Disciplined'
Ernestine Shepherd started training in her mid-50s and became a record-holding bodybuilder.
Why watch: Her routine is simple and repeatable. The discipline is the point.
Dick Van Dyke has an impressive workout at 95
The actor's gym routine in his mid-90s.
85-year-old Ed Whitlock runs sub-4:00 marathon, shatters world record
Whitlock returned to running in his 40s and broke the age-85 marathon world record in Toronto.
99-year-old swimmer making waves on the competition circuit has no plans to slow down
Betty Brussel began competing at 68. At 99 she broke three world records in a day.
Why watch: Pairs with our story on Betty. Listen to what she says about being with people.
Natalie Grabow, 80, becomes oldest woman to finish Ironman World Championship
She learned to swim at 59. Twenty-one years later she finished Kona.