Latest Active aging Podcast Episodes
#498 Is Anything Better Than Running? - Featuring Kris Rostas
Huntsman World Senior Games Active Life - July 19, 2024 05:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Wisconsin native Kris Rostas is a running enthusiast through and through. At 61 years old, this mother of two has chosen a lifestyle devoid of a couch or television, instead opting to lace up her running shoes every day. While she participated in cross country briefly as...
#497 Gliding Across the Soccer Field, Water, and Pavement - Featuring Lara Ray
Huntsman World Senior Games Active Life - July 12, 2024 06:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Lara Ray excelled in track, cross country, and soccer during her youth, ultimately thriving as a fullback in the Olympic Development Program. While on a soccer scholarship at the University of California, Santa Barbara, she acquired an art degree. Lara continued her socc...
#496 Circuit Training and the Deadly Dozen - Featuring Jason Curtis
Huntsman World Senior Games Active Life - July 05, 2024 02:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Jason Curtis is a highly experienced strength and conditioning coach and bestselling author who has published over a dozen books on the development of health, fitness and sports performance. He owns and runs a strength and conditioning gym in the UK and works with hundre...
#495 Table Tennis and NeuroPong - Featuring Sanjoy Bhattacharya
Huntsman World Senior Games Active Life - June 28, 2024 01:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Sanjoy Bhattacharya was born in India and grew up in the Chicago area, finishing all of his education there as an MBA, CPA (Certified Public Accountant) and CFP (Certified Financial Planner). He retired at the age of 41 and moved to St. George 25 years ago. Sanjoy has no...
#494 Climbing and Biking Mountains - Featuring Dr. Gordon Larsen
Huntsman World Senior Games Active Life - June 21, 2024 00:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Dr. Gordon Larsen, M.D., FACEP is an emergency medicine specialist at St. George Regional Hospital and has over 32 years of experience in the medical field. He graduated from University of Utah medical school in 1991 and completed his emergency medicine residency in Peor...
#493 Conquering the Gaucho Derby - Featuring Scott Nielsen
Huntsman World Senior Games Active Life - June 15, 2024 00:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Scott Nielsen is a businessman by day and an equestrian by night. He is currently a project manager and developer at the Black Desert Resort in Ivins, UT and holds an MBA from University of California, Irvine. However one of the biggest challenges of his life happened ea...
#492 One Man’s Health Journey, A Step at a Time - Featuring John Challis
Huntsman World Senior Games Active Life - June 06, 2024 20:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsSend us a Text Message. After many years in a primarily sedentary lifestyle, John Challis’s health journey began more than two decades ago at the invitation of some friends to go workout early mornings at the high school gym. Initially, he focused on strength training, and several years in, he ...
#491 Grandma Pole Vaults in Her She Shed - Featuring Kay Glynn
Huntsman World Senior Games Active Life - May 30, 2024 20:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Kay Glynn is a 70-year-old grandmother of 8 who currently resides in Missouri. She began dancing and acrobatics at the age of 4, and this led to owning her own dance and acrobatics studio for over 20 years. Kay was also a high school track and field phenom who held Iowa’...
#490 I Would Walk 4000 Miles and I Would Walk 500 More - Featuring Joan Young
Huntsman World Senior Games Active Life - May 24, 2024 01:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Joan Young wrote her first story about the outdoors at the age of 7, titled “The Adventures of Skippy the Field Mouse.” Joan’s life has always revolved around the outdoors from walking the woods with her mother to graduating with a Masters degree in Environmental Enginee...
#489 Concussions, Life Balance Square - Featuring Dr. Joseph Maroon
Huntsman World Senior Games Active Life - May 16, 2024 15:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Dr. Joseph C. Maroon is a Clinical Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, longtime team neurosurgeon to the Pittsburgh Steelers, and neurosurgical consultant for WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment). He received his education at Indiana ...
#488 Distance Running After Collapsed Lungs - Featuring Nate Marshall
Huntsman World Senior Games Active Life - May 11, 2024 04:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Today’s guest is Nate Marshall, a K-12 charter school executive director in Northern Utah. Nate grew up playing a variety of sports, but his favorite was golf. He also became an avid mountain biker, participating in a cross-country biking event that spanned 850 miles fro...
#487 Thriving After a Widowmaker Heart Attack - Featuring Travis Marchant
Huntsman World Senior Games Active Life - May 02, 2024 21:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Our guest this week is 49-year-old Travis Marchant, a hematology/oncology pharmacist at Intermountain Health. Like many American young men, Travis played basketball and football during high school and believed he could do anything physically challenging. As an adult, bac...
#486 Marathons with a Pacemaker - Featuring Idonna Clarke
Huntsman World Senior Games Active Life - April 26, 2024 02:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsSend us a Text Message. As a proud member of the St. George Marathon Legacy Club, 52-year-old Idonna Clarke, mother of six children and grandmother of 5, is shooting for her 24th marathon later this year. Idonna’s first exposure to a marathon was at the age of 12 in Los Angeles, where she distr...
#485 Why Use an Orthopedic Urgent Care? - Featuring Dr. Warren Butterfield
Huntsman World Senior Games Active Life - April 19, 2024 05:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Dr. Warren Butterfield has been in practice as an orthopedic trauma surgeon since 2007. He came to St. George in 2014 to assist in the transition of then Dixie Regional Medical Center to a level 2 trauma center and is currently the Director of Orthopedic Trauma at Interm...
#484 The Joy of Running - Featuring Sandra Checketts
Huntsman World Senior Games Active Life - April 12, 2024 04:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Sandra Checketts, widowed mother of 5 and grandmother of 10, has always enjoyed running, including as a cross country and track competitor at Utah State University. She is full or part owner in several health and wellness businesses and enjoys activities like snowmobilin...
#483 Improving VO2 Max and Bone Health - Featuring Dr. Vonda Wright
Huntsman World Senior Games Active Life - April 05, 2024 03:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Dr. Vonda Wright is an internationally-recognized practicing double-boarded orthopaedic sports surgeon, author, speaker, researcher, and innovator whose work stands in the intersection of longevity, women's health, mobility, and musculoskeletal aging. Widely recognized ...
#482 Stay Healthy for Those We Love - Featuring Shelley Gish
Huntsman World Senior Games Active Life - March 29, 2024 04:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Shelley Sybil Gish has spent most of her life learning about the benefits of holistic healing, with fifty-plus years of experience in behavioral genetics, thirty-one years in alternative health modalities, and ten years in herbology. As the single mother of eight childre...
#481 Cycling and Triathlon - Featuring Jason Ranoa
Huntsman World Senior Games Active Life - March 22, 2024 04:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Jason and Heather Ranoa are the Cycling and Triathlon directors for the Huntsman World Senior Games. We are fortunate enough to have had them for the past 3 years. Jason and Heather coach a non-profit Junior Developmental Cycling team based out of St. George. This team h...
#481 Cycling and Triathlon - Featuring Jason & Heather Ranoa
Huntsman World Senior Games Active Life - March 22, 2024 04:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsJason and Heather Ranoa are the Cycling and Triathlon directors for the Huntsman World Senior Games. We are fortunate enough to have had them for the past 3 years. Jason and Heather coach a non-profit Junior Developmental Cycling team based out of St. George. This team helps develop the future f...
#480 Don't Let the Old Man In - Featuring Nick Cipollino
Huntsman World Senior Games Active Life - March 15, 2024 03:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Nick Cipollino came from humble beginnings and knows the value of hard work. Nick took up sporting clay shooting in 1988 following a knee injury. He was introduced to the Huntsman World Senior Games in 2012, and at the age of 80, he secured gold in all seven shooting eve...
#479 Just Keep Swimming - Featuring Betty Brussel
Huntsman World Senior Games Active Life - March 08, 2024 03:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Ninety-nine-year-old Dutch-Canadian Betty Brussel is happiest when she is swimming. Setting world records, which she did as recently as a week ago, is just icing on the cake. Betty enjoyed swimming as a child when she wasn’t busy helping raise her 10 younger siblings in ...
#478 Let's Talk About Dementia - Featuring Karen Straw
Huntsman World Senior Games Active Life - March 01, 2024 06:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Karen Straw was born in Massachusetts and considers herself geographically challenged, having lived in Colorado, Arizona, Texas, Michigan, Wisconsin, the Marshall Islands in the South Pacific and now calls Utah her home. Karen graduated with her Master’s degree from Univ...
#477 A Route Away from Parkinson's - Featuring Steve Ault
Huntsman World Senior Games Active Life - February 22, 2024 21:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsSend us a Text Message. At the age of 60, Steve Ault faced a Parkinson's diagnosis and the option of Levodopa for symptom management. Rejecting only temporary relief, he spiraled into depression until a chance meeting with Bahram in August 2017 offered hope for a healthy life at 120. Encouraged...
#476 Find a Friend and Fight Gravity - Featuring Barbara Wintroub
Huntsman World Senior Games Active Life - February 16, 2024 04:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Pickleball pioneer Barbara Wintroub brought the sport to Santa Monica, CA fifteen years ago and Palm Desert, CA the next year. As one of the best senior players the sport has to offer, Barbara is nationally ranked in pickleball and a tournament tennis player for 63 years...
#475 Companionship as a Cure - Featuring Dr. Gloria Horsley & Dr. Frank Powers
Huntsman World Senior Games Active Life - February 09, 2024 06:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Dr. Gloria Horsley and Dr. Frank Powers are nationally recognized relationship therapists in their early 80s who met through a dating app called SilverSingles and later wrote a book together called “Open to Love: The Secrets of Senior Dating.” In “Open to Love,” the two ...
#474 The Thrill of Table Tennis - Featuring Charlie Slater
Huntsman World Senior Games Active Life - February 02, 2024 06:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Eighty-year-old table tennis player Charlie Slater loves the fact that age isn’t a major factor in who will win a match. As a senior player, he has been beaten by an 8-year-old when he was 72 and an 84-year-old when he was 62. Charlie currently resides in Decatur, Georgi...
#473 Hiking Rim-to-Rim - Featuring Alfredo Aliaga
Huntsman World Senior Games Active Life - January 26, 2024 04:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Originally from Spain, Alfredo Aliaga lives in Berlin, Germany and has always enjoyed hiking. He has held a variety of jobs, including as a sheep herder, serving in the military, working for a telephone company, and as a pharmaceutical representative. He has hiked in Spa...
#472 Built to Move - Featuring Dr. Kelly Starrett
Huntsman World Senior Games Active Life - January 19, 2024 06:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Dr. Kelly Starrett is a coach; physical therapist; speaker; and three-time New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling co-author of "Becoming a Supple Leopard," "Ready to Run," and "Built to Move." He is also the co-founder of The Ready State, the world's most com...
#471 A Little Fortune and a Lot of Hard Work - Featuring Damien Leake
Huntsman World Senior Games Active Life - January 12, 2024 09:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Today’s guest is Damien Leake, a master of the performing arts as an actor, singer, dancer, and more! Damien was born in the Bronx, New York and is a graduate of New York’s High School of Performing Arts. He also is a world-class Masters track and field athlete who is a ...
#470 Find Your Motivation - Featuring Dr. Barbara Nelson
Huntsman World Senior Games Active Life - January 05, 2024 01:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsSend us a Text Message. Dr. Barbara Nelson is a retired OB/Gyn and public health physician, and she also is a former exercise physiology professor at Brigham Young University-Idaho with a Master's in public health. Her extensive athletic achievements include completing 31 full Ironman triathlon...