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One of the presentations I was asked to do many years ago was for a Financial Investment business that had two guest speakers invited to speak to their clients as a group. The clients were all transitioning into retirement and were there to hear about where to put their money wisely to achieve the best… Read more »

How many times do we set ourselves up for failure when we roll into a New Year with all the best intentions to make a change in some aspect of our life. In the past 40 years I have had so many people tell me that they are “definitely going to lose weight this year”… Read more »

Why do I have “I can, I will, I am” as a visual reminder? I have three small canvases hanging on my wall. Together they make a triptych, a pictorial of intent, a sequence of events imparting a narrative. I created my triptych to make a visual interpretation of what I go through regularly in… Read more »

A Happy Ending!  “I can’t believe the difference in my husband since he started doing some regular exercise,” said Susan.  “He has always been a little on the depressive side – sees the half empty glass whereas I am more inclined to see life through rosier glasses”.  I was interested to hear this about Bill,… Read more »

What is Wellness?    Wellness is living the best life you can for as long as you can.    That is a great starting point when making decisions about what we need to do in life.    If we are going to live longer, we want to live well because the opposite, illness, is not… Read more »

Exercise as Medicine During the past century we have lost so many opportunities for incidental exercise.  The industrial age and the advent and growth of technology have stripped away so many “energy-burners” that would have filled our day.  Previously just keeping food on the table, the house clean and the clothes washed would have expended… Read more »

Inactivity can be Risky By the time we reach 50, the likelihood that we will have some health/body challenge which will respond to exercise increases significantly. It may take the shape of a chronic condition, for example Type 2 Diabetes, heart dysfunction, osteoporosis, arthritis, COPD, cancer, or it may come under the heading of biomechanical… Read more »

A Green Apple a Day… “What is it that you do here? The other day I was asked this question by one of the patients referred to us by a local doctor.  I had to explain that, no, we were not an “over-50 gym” even though many of our members are over 50. I explained… Read more »

One of my clients, John, had retired at 65 and felt driven to come and talk about his exercise needs because of something that had happened to him. John had lived the life of a very busy executive for 40 years with most of them spent sitting in a chair somewhere in the world. On… Read more »

Research tells us that if you are regularly participating in exercise around like-minded people you will have better physical wellness, mental health and emotional well-being. At the Green Apple the social interaction plays a huge part in the results people can get just from being in the same area of the Centre, or in the… Read more »