Vince is far from looking, or acting, his age (he'll be 61 in August). Last year, he and Triple H trained together three or four days a week. And when he trains, he trains hard and heavy: no gimmicks, very few machines, like his mentors of yesteryear. Heavy benching, bent-over rows and squats are his staples. "Vince is old-school," says his training partner Steve Stone, a former competitive bodybuilder and current NPC vice chairman of bodybuilding under Steve Weinberger in New York. "He doesn't look for any shortcuts. It upsets him when people give 80%. If you don't add up to something but you're giving 110%, that's admirable to him. But if you're great at 80% and he knows you could do more, he wants you to because that's what he would do. He doesn't expect anything out of his wrestlers that he wouldn't do himself."
"When you're younger, it's tough to appreciate your health and to appreciate physical culture," explains Vince. "I always did, but not to the extent that I do now. The older you get, the more you appreciate the training and the results you get. I can do anything at 60 that I could do at 30. I just can't do it as often."
Talk about a model baby boomer. While many men his age will give you a laundry list of reasons why they can't go to the gym--family, work, chronic laziness--Vince's schedule is as jam-packed as anyone's, but that's no excuse. "I love training with Vince because he works his ass off," says Triple H. Vince just wishes others would follow his lead. "What's disconcerting to me is that while we're smarter as a species in every respect--from an intellectual standpoint and all that--it doesn't seem that the populace as a whole today is any more physically fit than it was yesteryear," he says. "I just don't understand. Because, think about it--
everything's better when you're in shape. Food tastes better. *** is better. Even breathing is easier."