Welcome to the Not Old Better Show. I'm Paul Vogel Zang and this is episode number 219. Today's show is part of our fitness Friday series and it's another great one in our fitness Friday programs.

We've got some important news to share about the heart and your body's ability to

make the heart younger and we'll be hearing from highly regarded fitness professional

Elisa Hillary.

Elisa Hillary is a certified fitness professional.

She teaches all levels of fitness and has unique experience

as a group training instructor, body weight trainer, and fitness

apps expert in addition to being passionate about fitness and training for those of us over

age 55.

Exercises become ever more prevalent and ever more focused on in doctor's visits,

in the aging process, and you hear people saying over and over again, you know, age is now just a number.

People are holding and attaining fitnesses in their later years more so than they've ever done in in the last hundred years so

55 year olds and 65 year old people can still add muscle and and still be

effective and still move pretty fluidly than ever before.

So it's quite incredible that if you look at exercise,

it really can have so many benefits.

That, of course, is our guest, Elisa Hillary,

who will join us following Fitness Friday News.

We're going to answer the question,

why the heart wants what the heart wants.

They're not old better show Fitness Friday News. You know, eventually it happens to everyone.

As we age, even if we're healthy, the heart becomes less flexible, more stiff, and just isn't as efficient in processing oxygen as it used to be. In most people, the first signs show up in the early 50s or early 60s,

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