As a Trainer for 40+ Years, what’s one piece of advice you’d give your younger self about health and wellness?

• Be Unwaveringly Flexible; why is flexibility harder to achieve with Age?!?

A tight muscle is a weak muscle, by very definition that it's tightness inhibits it's ability to move, and to perform, through the range of motion that it was designed to.

Now our world, and our life, has become designed to weaken and to tighten virtually all of the skeletal muscles that we need to move through this very same world.

But just like the old guy said in the movie It's a Wonderful Life, "Youth is wasted on the wrong people!" When I was younger, I never knew how easy it would be to lose flexibility.

Muscle strength and tone is evident and attractive… You know what when you've got it… You know it when you see it, and others know it when they see & feel it in you.

But muscle inflexibility and losing joint range of motion, sneaks up and creeps up on you like the Grimm dam reaper... Oh you know it's out there somewhere, but you have no idea how close how intimately close It's gotten to your reality.

Endurance is the first thing that we lose with inactivity, but it is also the easiest to reacquire.

Power and strength take longer to lose with genuine muscle atrophy and central nervous system degradation, but there is a stimulus response-based plan of attack that's fairly easy and straightforward to follow to get back much, if not even more than we had before.

Flexibility? Well now That is something we all need but few, myself included, are willing to do what's necessary to bend over backwards to achieve.

Here are a couple links to both explain the how’s and why’s behind age-on-set-inflexibility, along with valuable steps we all can take to make our every step through the world safer and more stable, because we have made an unwavering commitment to becoming flexible...

https://performancerevolution.com.au/do-you-lose-flexibility-with-age/

https://www.healthline.com/health/fitness-exercise/men-over-40