Getting older is inevitable.

But how we experience those years may be a different question.

Abe Walzer—gym owner, nurse, veteran, husband, father and grandfather—joins Ruben Escalona for a wide-ranging conversation about the idea behind The Age Well Project.

What begins as a discussion about physical fitness becomes a much larger conversation about maintaining strength and independence, paying attention to your health, caring for your mental well-being, accepting the realities of getting older without simply giving up, and continuing to show up for the people who matter to you.

Abe also shares lessons from nearly two decades of training others, his journey through multiple businesses, mentoring young people, his own experiences with therapy and why he believes helping people requires more than simply telling them what to do.

His philosophy may be captured best in two ideas from the conversation:

Don't just add years to your life. Add life to your years.

And:

“I don't teach from successes, I teach from failures.”

This is more than a conversation about working out.

It's a conversation about aging well—and living well while you're doing it.

Abe Walzer | Alpha Aesthetics
The Age Well Project

Hosted by Ruben Escalona on Behind the X's & O's, a Red Alpha Studios production.