Beginning tomorrow, and running once or twice per week through the summer (and probably into the early fall), we’ll begin posting key topics in a Foundation Series, geared to outline a core set of principles for anyone of any age to live by, but particularly geared toward those over 30 who have drifted away from a healthy, fit, and above all – optimally functional lifestyle.
I’ll never forget the first time, in a recreational setting, when a guy two years younger (I was 31 at the time ) said, “you know, once you hit 30, you begin to lose a step, and it’s all downhill from there”.
We happened to be playing frisbee golf in one of the beautiful parks in Salt Lake City at the time; despite the fact that I soundly beat him, I remember as it it were yesterday feeling pudgy and bit out of shape that day, my weight have crept up slowly during my residency as the time and stress demands of medicine and a young family slowly and inexorably pushed fitness to a back burner.
Fast forward a few years, and like so many in our busy world, I was packing on the weight and slowly deconditioning, my physiological and functional ages ‘maturing’ faster than my chronological age.
The principles upon which a much healthier life should and could be built – the critical foundation of healthy living – were beginning to evolve in earnest back then (this was the early ‘80s).
Now there’s a flood of information available, much of which has been and still is antithetical to what’s been served up as conventional and medical wisdom for several decades, new information that’s changing the very core of human potential – not just for the highest tiers of professional and recreational athletes, but for the rest of us “mere mortals” living and working everyday lives.
Tomorrow we’ll outline the first bundle of topics to cover in our upcoming foundation posts.
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