Any-age Fitness

Beauty & Health | Living Fit: Any-age Fitness — Cathy Di Montezemolo / Photo Uli Rose /Vogue 1986 04

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(1) Athletic, she was an early student of Joseph Pilates.

Catherine Bradley Murray (September 18, 1925 – April 22, 2009)[1] was a fashion editor with a prominent position in Southampton society.

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Catherine di Montezemolo is no av- erage sixty-year-old. Credit her looks, in part, to luck; but also con- sider her long dedication to fit- ness. Exercise has shaped Di Montezemolo's hair (cut to hold a precise line, even in action), nails (short), and makeup (the option to wear a minimum, attractively). Hair, Ray Allington of Vidal Sas- soon; makeup, Hinda Herc. This page, photographed at Isotoner Fitness Center, NYC. For more de- tails, see last pages of this issue.

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Catherine di Montezemolo is no av- erage sixty-year-old. Credit her looks, in part, to luck; but also con- sider her long dedication to fit- ness. Exercise has shaped Di Montezemolo's hair (cut to hold a precise line, even in action), nails (short), and makeup (the option to wear a minimum, attractively). Hair, Ray Allington of Vidal Sas- soon; makeup, Hinda Herc. This page, photographed at Isotoner Fitness Center, NYC. For more de- tails, see last pages of this issue

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any-age fitness CATHY DI MONTEZEMOLO- rewards of 30 years of fit living

What's startling about Catherine di Montezemo- lo's workout is less the exercise itself than the fact that she's been at it virtually every day for thirty years, "It's as much a part of my day as is brush- ing my teeth."

Every weekday at 7:30 A.M., sixty-year-old Di Montezemolo, Lord & Taylor's director of spe- cial projects, tackles a one-hour workout of stretching and strengthening exercises at NYC's Isotoner Fitness Center, a Pilates studio. (Week- ends, she substitutes a one-hour calisthenics class followed by horseback riding.)

With her jam-packed schedule, how does Di Montezemolo manage to keep her commitment to exercise? "I try to plan work around it. If some- one schedules a meeting for 8:00 AM.. I say- barring disaster it can wait until 8:30,"

Travel is the only challenge that Cathy di Mon- tezemolo hasn't overcome. "I'm usually on a tight schedule, and in Europe exercise classes aren't readily available; everything just falls apart. I pay for the lack of exercise in feeling less energetic.

Why she exercises and what she expects from fitness are two clues to Cathy di Montezemolo's determination to exercise consistently. "Vanity got me to exercise in the first place. My looks were deteriorating at a very young age, and I thought exercise might help." Gradually, though, her motives shifted: "Exercise improved my shape, and that was important, but, now, staying healthy, feeling well, and expanding my endur ance are what keep me going.

Anyone would assume that Cathy di Monteze- molo loves to work out. "To be truthful, I really don't like to exercise. It's boring and tedious. I watch the clock, which I never do when I'm work- ing. But I've derived too many benefits from exer- cise not to stick with it."

The most powerful of those benefits: "Unlike many of my peers. I've become healthier and bet- ter shaped as I've aged. I'm certain I have more energy today than I did when I was eighteen."