I was so crazy about discus and shot put that I used to sleep for two years.
The discus was attached to my hand because in the Olympic trials in 1960, the guy that
was better than me, I beat him by this much.
So I made the Olympics because I was not a talented athlete.
In fact, I was not fast enough, I was not big enough, but I was so determined to break
the record in Israel.
And then I became the chairman of biomechanics for the U.S. Olympic Committee.
We analyze athletes, we work with the best athletes in the world.
We developed exercise machines like the original universal gym equipment.
It's my path.
My muscles are pretty good, you know, at 78 it's pretty good, and I can lift a lot.
It was a shock that from a very, very healthy life, in 24 hours, you're about to die.
And with the kidney transplant, it took a long time on the hospital, suddenly I cannot
exercise, I'm tired, I have to take a nap, I don't have any life anymore.
Every week I feel better and better, even my wife realizes it.
She tells me, hey, you work better.
After I swim in the Endless Pool, I feel that I walk much easier on the ground, and
I think it would be a very good exercise for people with no kidney transplant.
I mean, it's a great machine.
So in the Endless Pool, I have a flexibility to do different kinds of exercises.
So I don't use it only as a swimming pool, which I can, but I'm also using it as a different
kind of creative exercise that I do.
So I'm pushing myself against the ground every time.
So I push on the ground and I have two or three strokes, and then I let the legs touching
the bottom, and again, it pushed me up, so I'm walking my ankles at the same time.
So I always switch the exercises.
When I'm holding the rail, I can use my legs very, very fast, so that's good for circulation
in the legs.
So you're actually running on a treadmill, but there's no impact.
You're running against the water resistance.
For me, it's exercise machine.
For me, it was never a swimming machine.
It's an exercise machine.
It's very unique.
Guys are developed by good endurance.
It's my life.
I'm exercising now for 65 years every day.