Is social media healthy? For me, not so much! I’ve decided to withdraw from Facebook and other platforms, but Pushing 60 Aside is going to rock right along. Thank you for listening, but please subscribe as I’ll soon no longer publish new episodes on Facebook.

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.