A woman of a certain age

JANE FONDA is still working out.

She will be 73 on December 21, so she’s no longer advocating that anyone be foolish enough to feel the burn — the battle cry of her original workout videos, first released in 1982, amid a flurry of spandex, leg warmers and big hair — but is instead urging ‘seniors’ not to spend all of their remaining time alive sitting on the sofa.

“People who are of a certain age tend to be ignored by the fitness industry, and being that I’m older and I’ve done a lot of research on what happens to a body when it gets older, I know that it’s essential that we stay active,” she recently told an interviewer. “It’s the worst thing that a person could do when they’re older is to say, ‘Why bother now? I’m older. I don’t need to.’ I’m on this crusade to get older people out of the chairs, off their couches, moving in a way that’s safe, easy and very doable, even if they’ve never done it a day in their lives. It’s never too late.”