Men's Fitness After 50: Recent Episodes
Mark Nutting
Mark A Nutting, a two-time national award winning personal trainer with over 40 years experience, will discuss topics that can help you sustain your health and fitness levels, regain what you may have lost, or gain what you never before had, as you enter and continue the second half of our lives. In these bite-sized sessions, Mark will cover everything from exercising through arthritis through maintaining brain fitness. Being 62 years old, himself, he offers the "been there, done that" prospective along with his evidence-based presentations.
Mark discusses some important rules and guidelines for those getting started in a fitness program.
Breaking a chain of behavior can stop forward momentum. Work at not breaking that chain, but if you do, start a new one.
The health and function of our brains as we age is a major concern for many people. There are 5 components, pillars, that we can control to help us stay as high functioning as possible through the years. Brain fitness is the subject in this podcast.
The term "functional training" is used all of the time, sometimes accurately, sometimes not. Listen in as I discuss what kind of training truly is functional.
Most people have a strong tendency to always focus on the negative things that happen to us, or the things that we shouldn't do, or the goals that we didn't make. The fact is that if we focus on the positive things instead of the negative, we will stick with things longer, feel better about our progress, and will be happier people in general. This is what I'll be talking about today.
I was going to talk about the prevalence of low back pain as we get older, but got sidetracked by a social media discussion on a new diet. So, here's my thoughts on this and other diets.
In this first podcast for Men's Fitness After 50, we start by contemplating what it means to be over 50 years old and how long and how well we can expect to live.