Pushing 60 Aside

Today, I ask some tough questions. Such as, “How are you going to spend your last 10 to 15 years?”

Exercise and healthy eating is more than just a goal. Together, they help you fulfill your PURPOSE!

Is it a matter of willpower or brain power? What if you’ve been fat-shamed your whole life? Why do we give in to cravings? How does stress hold us back?

From My Fitness Pal to Fitbit’s food trackers, the use of a program is a good method of learning about macronutrient makeup of the foods you eat. Best of all, they help you understand portion sizes to help you achieve weightloss goals.

Going from unfit to fit isn’t easy, but it is possible with motivation, with planning, and with persistence even after age 60! Working with a trainer might be the key to setting a realistic set of goals and developing a plan for healthy dieting mixed with the ‘right’ exercise.

At the end of life, many people would buy more time — if they could. Gene shares two stories based on time shared with two men at the end of their lives...and what they would have done for more time on Earth. What can we do to buy time...to add good years to our lives?

Grieving and Coronavirus have changed my world in fitness. Here, I share how walking with grieving survivors has expanded my scope as a fitness trainer. You may find this episode a bit uncomfortable, but our goal is to put the reality of this pandemic in the public ear without politics or sensationalism. This podcast is about helping surviving family members work through their grief — with an ultimate goal of helping them in their physical fitness as well.

Lessons learned this week from a guy who pretty much lost it all, but got a portion of it back.

Part 1 of this series dealt with mostly psychological and interpersonal issues. This episode examines the possible physiological reasons for chronic fatigue.

Are you tired ‘all the time’ and wondering where your energy went? In this episode Gene explores some of the possibilities for energy loss from a psychological standpoint.

Gene fires off a message to the 40-somethings, telling the cold/hard truth that life really does start getting harder at 40 — that obesity makes EVERYTHING doubly hard and almost guarantees serious medical issues — long before you’re even thinking about retirement.

What if eating healthy ALL the TIME got you to a place of health — with a slow but steady loss of body fat? What if you stopped ‘going on a diet’ every six months?

Papa Gene discusses the importance of merging back into fitness after an extended pause — carefully reconditioning muscles and tendons until you’re back in shape again. And, we’ll examine why seniors need to do more than just walking as exercise.

Aging is an uphill battle...it’s hard! How do we win battle after battle? Gene looks at the essentials of maintaining fitness to give seniors the best possible retirement years!

Gene shares a trilogy of stories that could have each had a fateful ending (for him). This podcast wrestles with the topic of gripping fear as Covid-19 mangles our way of living.

This podcaster DID NOT know he was building his health over 8 years in preparation for a pandemic. Yet, his chance of survival are high.

What keeps me exercising and eating healthily at age 62? What role does fear play...or, does it?

A relaxation session and story to help you drift off into sleep.

When eating and lifestyle changes are the REAL answer, why do people still do the crash diet thing?

Gene discusses the body, mind, and spirit factors of fitness — a three-dimensional approach to staying on track and motivated.