IRENE Estry is putting her fitness class of lycra-clad ladies through their paces, swinging her leg onto a barre to show off her flexibility as she trills out words of encouragement.
Irene may stretch and strut like a teen - but she is actually aged 81.
She can still do the splits - and many of the women here she's training can too - seemingly proof that the exercise techniques she's been teaching for the past 40 years really do work.
Irene herself aims to be living proof that a healthy lifestyle, staying fit and flexible and a bit of bloody common sense' can help you stay youthful whatever your age.
The proof that it works? Well, I'm agog when I ask the ages of some of the sprightly and lean women who are taking part in this class in Irene's home fitness studio in Whitefield - finding out they're all in their 70s and 80s.
The two oldest - Rhona Aizenberg, 83 and Ruth Balkin, 89, have been attending Irene's fitness classes for the past 40 years and swear by them. And guess what? They can both do the splits as well.
Irene, who is a petite 4ft 11ins, has been a fitness guru not only to the women of Whitefield, but to showbiz stars from across the world over the past 40-odd years since she became, as she says, the first teacher to put an exercise class on in Manchester back in 1981.
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