Shelley Meyer cheers after a Florida Gator win. Photo: Doug Benc/Getty Images

College football has taken Shelley Meyer all over the map. But for the past four and a half years, she has been living it up in Gainesville, Fla., where her husband Urban Meyer, head football coach of the University of Florida Gators, has scored two national championships in four seasons. No doubt, life is crazy.

"Now that we're at the University of Florida -- the elite of the elite of football programs in the nation -- it's hard to put into words how busy we are," says the 44-year-old psychiatric nurse, group fitness professional and mom of three. "It's really picked up to the max."

Still, Meyer makes no excuses when it comes to exercise. She recently told That's Fit how she stays in such great shape (she can do seven unassisted pull-ups!), what she does to stay fit on the road (she travels to every away game) and what she'll be eating in the stands when the Gators kick off their season against Charleston Southern tomorrow night.

That's Fit: How do you fit fitness into the madness?

Shelley Meyer: Most days, once everyone is out the door in the morning, I head to the gym. Sometimes, I work, then I work out. But I work out every day. Five days a week, I go to the gym for sure. On the weekends, I like to do something different. I might run for three miles on Saturday and do stadiums on Sunday. I work out two days a week with a trainer, and he totally kicks my butt. He's hard core, and I tell him he's not nice at all. He won't listen to my whining. Twice a month, I take a day off. I need a day to not exercise. I also teach indoor cycling at Gainesville Health and Fitness Center.

I've spent a lot of time with various celebrities this year and have poked them all about their health and fitness habits. Two of the most inspiring were not the young hard bodies we see on the covers of tabloid magazines each week. No, these two celebrities have healthy capable bodies, which have endured many years of living.

The woman I speak of, at 57 years old, is every bit the blond bombshell she was known as 30 years ago. She works out six to seven days a week, mixing up her workouts with: kickboxing, yoga, water aerobics and climbing her steep driveway known as "butt hill."

The man who stood out is in his late 60s and still plays basketball and baseball on a regular basis. The guy has probably been in every hit sitcom in the past three decades and told me that the highlight of his year would be if I could hook him up to throw the ball around with the Heisman Trophy winning University of Florida quarterback, Tim Tebow.

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