Welcome

You’re Not Done Yet

You don’t need to spend the rest of your life getting really good at managing your decline.

You want to keep doing things.

Walk the beach. Travel. Garden. Play with the grandkids. Get down on the floor and, preferably, get back up again. Spend time with somebody you love. Try something new. Wake up wondering what the day might bring.

That’s what health is for.

Move Well Stay Healthy is about staying able to live the life you want to live, for as long as you possibly can.

We Learned This the Hard Way

Back in 2007, I was in my early 50s and pretty well beat up.

Years of sports injuries had caught up with me. I was facing seven recommended surgeries and a future that seemed to involve more pain, more pills and less of the life I wanted.

Peggy and I started looking for another way.

That search changed everything.

Movement changed. Food changed. We discovered resistance stretching. My body began doing things I’d been told not to expect.

Eventually, Peggy and I opened RiversZen.

For more than 15 years, we’ve worked with thousands of real people. People with bad backs, cranky knees, frozen shoulders, poor balance, fear, stiffness and that awful little voice saying, “Well, I guess this is just what happens when you get old.”

We’ve watched enough people prove that voice wrong that we’ve become pretty skeptical of it.

Not everybody gets the same result. Nothing works for everybody.

But we’ve seen people get their lives back in ways that still amaze us.

And somewhere along the way, we realized something else.

Health isn’t the destination.

Life is.

So What Will You Find Here?

Movement, absolutely. Strength, mobility, balance, stretching and ways to keep your body working.

We’ll talk about food too. And sleep. Aging. Habits. Sometimes we’ll question advice that everybody seems to accept without asking why.

But you’ll also find Peggy and me walking on the beach, watching birds, protecting our weekends together and occasionally discovering that knowing what you should do doesn’t mean you’re actually going to do it.

Funny how that works.

We’ll talk about relationships. Purpose. Nature. Curiosity. Mistakes. Students who teach us something. Getting older without becoming old before your time.

Some days we’ll probably wander completely off the health trail.

That’s okay.

Because the whole point of taking care of yourself is having a life worth wandering into.

We’re Still Figuring This Out Too

You won’t find gurus sitting on a mountaintop here.

Peggy and I have learned a lot. We’ve also changed our minds plenty of times.

We’ll tell you what has worked for us. We’ll share what we’ve seen repeatedly while working with people at RiversZen. When research adds something useful, we’ll talk about that too.

And when we don’t know, we’ll say we don’t know.

We’re curious.

That’s probably one of the things keeping us young.

If That Sounds Like Your Kind of Place...

Stick around.

Read. Comment. Disagree with me. Tell us what’s working for you.

Move Well Stay Healthy isn’t about becoming obsessed with health.

It’s about staying strong enough, mobile enough, curious enough and healthy enough to keep saying yes to your life.

Because you’re not done yet.

Neither are we.