Fitness: No Excuses!

Tennis great Martina Navratilova shares her secrets for staying fit

Martina Navratilova must have a secret. The rivals of her youth have moved on--into retirement, onto highlight reels, up to the TV booth. Yet Navratilova, the tennis great who will turn 50 in October, is still whipping forehands past players who hadn't been born yet when she started on the pro tour in 1972. With her unusual endurance have come questions--lots of them. "The longer I play and the older I get," she says, "the more I get 'Why are you still doing this? How can you do it so well?'"

So? "There is no secret, no silver bullet," says Navratilova....

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