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Getting Fit Over 50 and Finding Your Balance

Not only does losing your mobility put you at an increased risk for depression, but in a recent study, losing it has been shown to decrease your life expectancy by as much as ten years.

Here’s the good news. With training, your balance, and your ability to get around can be improved and extended. 

Getting Fit Over 50 and the Recovery Myth

A prevalent aging misconception is that people lose their ability to recover quickly as they age. Whether it’s exercise, injury, hangovers, etc… you will often hear older people whine how they just can’t rebound like they did when they were younger.

There is a biological truth to a diminished ability to recover as you age, but I promise you it’s not nearly as severe as most people think.

I Have the Late Onset Alzheimer’s Gene

A significant motivation that inspired me to get fit was the discovery that I have the late-onset Alzheimer’s gene.

Through genetic testing, I learned I have the Apolipoprotein E gene. Also known as APOE. More specifically, I possess two copies of the E4 variant of the APOE gene.