Tag: Exercise & Sports

Fit After 50 Challenge – Exercise As If Your Life Depends On It

Fit After 50 Challenge – Exercise As If Your Life Depends On It

| May 23, 2013 | 5 Comments

The physical therapist who won the “Fit After 50 Member Challenge” says, Exercise as if your life depends on it. You can even be a “Woman With Balls.”

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The Humor and Pain of Baby Boomers Keeping in Shape

The Humor and Pain of Baby Boomers Keeping in Shape

| February 18, 2013 | 8 Comments

Someone once said, ‘It would be nice to die young … at an old age.’ BoomerCafé contributor Larry Lefkowitz has that in his future. But as he writes, it’s not always fun.

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Graying baby boomers offer market opportunity

Graying baby boomers offer market opportunity

| December 31, 2012 | 0 Comments

With millions of baby boomers reaching retirement age, fears are mounting of the economic impact if they follow the pattern of previous generations by curbing spending and draining Social Security and Medicare benefits, even though boomers have funded those programs for decades.

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An active lifestyle is a way to stay fit and keep feeling young

An active lifestyle is a way to stay fit and keep feeling young

| August 31, 2012 | 5 Comments

If BoomerCafé is all about baby boomers’ active lifestyles, you probably can’t get much more active than one leading-edge boomer, our own co-founder and executive editor Greg Dobbs. He isn’t just active for the sake of it; for him, it’s the only way to stay young.

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A baby boomer fulfills a life-long dream to walk across England

A baby boomer fulfills a life-long dream to walk across England

| August 28, 2012 | 2 Comments

One of our favorite topics at BoomerCafé is achievement — achievement by active baby boomers of endeavors our parents probably wouldn’t have undertaken at all. So it is with Joyce Zonana’s walk across England … A walk she makes all of us want to take.

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Walking the Walk

Walking the Walk

| October 27, 2008 | 0 Comments

Okay, we’re proud of our generation, proud of ourselves for being young, being active. But can we be honest here? Our bodies ain’t necessarily what they used to be. Leigh Anne-Jasheway-Bryant is doing something about it. She’s Walking the Walk! I recently won pedometer as a door prize. Needless to say, I was thrilled. The [...]

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