Welcome to the not old better show Fitness Friday series. I'm your host Paul Vogel saying and this is episode

number 2006. Today's show is part of our Fitness Friday series and it's another great one.

We'll be hearing from returning guests Sabrina Joe who will join us in just a minute as you know

Sabrina Joe is a favorite with our not old better audience and is from the American

Council on exercise where she is the Director of Science and Research

content. Sabrina Joe will be here to share new research about one of my favorite

topics, the brain, cognitive functioning, and balance all supported by exercise.

And we've got some excellent Fitness Friday news from the University of Southern California

about when it comes to measuring your fitness, no one gets it right.

We'll answer the question why it's not your fitness tracker, it's you.

And now on to our Fitness Friday News.

The Not Old Better Show, Fitness Friday News.

An American, a Brit, and a Dutch guy go for a walk. Now that may sound like the beginning of a joke and by the way I'm not the Dutch guy, but it's actually the end of a University of Southern California-led study

that could impact the future research on physical activity.

With the help of fitness tracking devices, an international team of scientists studied how physically active people consider themselves to be versus how physically active they really are. The research has revealed that no one gets it right.

The American responses suggest they are active as the Dutch or the English.

Older people think they are as active as young people. In reality

though, Americans are much less active than the Europeans and older people are

less active than the young.

Does this mean that Americans and those of us over age 55 are liars about their physical activity?

Or the Dutch and the English humbly underestimate theirs.

Well, according to Ari Captain, the study's lead author,

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