384: Building Strength After 50 For an Active Retirement with Dave Durell
Retire With Purpose - The Retirement Podcast
Casey Weade
4.7 • 564 Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2023
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Dave Durell. Dave is a fitness coach, blogger, and speaker and has been in the health industry for over 40 years. He has worked as a personal trainer, an NFL strength and training and conditioning coach, and a physical therapist assistant.
We came across Dave's work at StrengthAfter50.com, where he shares strength training tips, personal training guidance, and the latest research on fitness. He believes not just in staying strong after 50 but staying strong forever–and it all works a little differently at 50 compared to when we were in our 20s and 30s.
In this conversation, Dave and I explore what it means to be fit for life and to be able to live to the fullest. We discuss the benefits of strength training (and why lifting weights isn't just for young people), what fitness programming looks like over 50, and the benefits of tools and tech toys designed to encourage recovery.
From there, we dig into what a full-body workout for retirees and pre-retirees might look like, how to get started, and the proper diet to support your body's needs.
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In this podcast interview, you'll learn:
- Why so many retirees suffer when they have the time and the resources to live, but lack physical ability and mobility.
- Why even putting 5 pounds of muscle on is a huge deal after the age of 50–and why you don't have to train like crazy to achieve it.
- The reason Dave won't let many of his older clients train more than two days a week.
- How to avoid getting hurt lifting weights.
- Why Dave is such a big fan of exercise machines despite their criticisms.
- The importance of nutrition–and especially protein–in a diet intended to build and keep muscle.
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| 0:00.0 | The hardest step for somebody is from zero to one. |
| 0:04.1 | Just starting something, anything, just starting that habit. |
| 0:08.5 | Just get in there and do five reps of something. |
| 0:11.4 | And then the next time, do six, and then do seven. |
| 0:14.2 | Worry about all that failure stuff later. |
| 0:16.3 | Just get started. |
| 0:17.2 | Just get in the habit. |
| 0:18.4 | Do something. |
| 0:19.3 | Whatever it is, just get started. |
| 0:29.1 | Welcome to the Retire with Purpose Podcast. My name is Casey Weed. And this is our mission here at Howard Bailey, here at the Retire with Purposepose podcast to deliver to you clarity and purpose and elevate meaning in your life through personal and practical financial strategies, not just on the financial side, but also the non-financial side. |
| 0:47.9 | And we do that in a couple of different ways. |
| 0:49.7 | Every Friday, my good friend and I, Marshall Johnson, we get together and we discuss a trending topic |
| 0:55.1 | in the financial and non-financial space. But then what we're doing here today, and we do every |
| 1:00.6 | other Monday, is we provide you with an hour-long interview with one of our world-class guests |
| 1:06.8 | from a variety of different backgrounds. Today, that background is going to be fitness with none other than |
| 1:13.0 | Dave Durrell, fitness coach, blogger, speaker. He's been in the health and fitness industry since |
| 1:18.6 | 1982. I always opened these interviews and prior to actually going on recording, I will make |
| 1:26.2 | sure our guests know that they can just be themselves. Well, |
| 1:29.1 | Dave's been doing this for about 50 years, so this should be pretty darn natural for him. |
| 1:33.5 | He has owned personal training businesses, worked as an NFL strength and training and conditioning |
| 1:39.0 | coach, and practiced as a licensed physical therapist assistant. He has a master's degree in health fitness administration. |
| 1:46.8 | And he runs a website and where we found Dave with Strength After50.com, |
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