Meet the 90-year-old Caddington ex-serviceman in the gym at dawn every morning
A man living in Caddington is proving that age is just a number as he carries on going to the gym every day despite being 90.
Tochi Bhatt lives in Millfield Green retirement village with his partner, Pauline.
Tochi worked in the Kenya Police Force before becoming a scientist and cancer researcher in Texas.
The pair moved to Caddington after downsizing from their family home in Hertfordshire.
He said: “Our garden was just under two acres with a lot of fruit trees.
“I wanted to retire, to relax, to read, to go to the gym. I don’t have to do any gardening here, which is a bonus.”
A keen traveller and climber, Tochi has been to Antarctica, and he got to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro when he was only 16.
He said: “I climbed two other peaks in the Pyrenees – the highest and the third highest and I climbed in the Cascades in Montana, and Pacific Crest Trail 2000 in the US.”
He’s traded mountaineering for the facilities onsite.
Tochi said: “It’s brilliant to just walk to the gym and the swimming pool. I’m in the gym every morning between 5.30am and 6am and work for one and a half hours. Pauline loves the wellbeing classes.”