Rick Springfield was apparently in awe of Dick Van Dyke after bumping into the Hollywood legend at a local gym.
“Filming an episode of Men’s Health and I went to the gym and who should be there but 99 year-old Dick Van Dyke working out on every machine,” the “Jessie’s Girl” singer, 76, captioned a photo of the two men on Instagram Sept. 26.
“Dick has lived in Malibu for about 30 years and is an awesome human being,” Springfield continued. “I thought I was doing well at 76, but Dick got up from the chest press machine and did a little dance step before I left! Amazing!”
Springfield’s gym photo comes a little less than three months after Van Dyke missed co-hosting a comedy event with his wife, Arlene Silver, because of an illness, People reported at the time.
Van Dyke, who celebrates his 100th birthday on Dec. 13, shared a video shortly after his 99th birthday last year to demonstrate how he stays in such amazing shape.
In the clip, the “Mary Poppins” star was seen effortlessly doing leg presses at the gym.
The same month, Van Dyke also danced in a Coldplay video for the band’s song “All My Love.”
The special extended director’s cut video was shot at the Malibu home Van Dyke shares with Silver. It shows the actor singing along with Coldplay lead singer Chris Martin and dancing with family members as he talks about a few highlights in his life.
The video also captures Van Dyke opening up about the mindset he uses to approach each new day.
“I am acutely aware that I can go any day now,” he says in the video. “But I don’t know why it doesn’t concern me. I’m not afraid of it. I have that feeling totally against anything intellectual I have, that I am going to be all right.”
Van Dyke added that he considers himself “one of those lucky people who got to do for a living what I would have done anyway.”
“When you think how lucky I am,” the actor says, “I got to do what I do: play and act silly.”