Fit For My Age

Greg Damian is an elite senior athlete, with an impressive list of achievements . That was not always the case. As a teenager he was overweight. His life changed when he realised that a few lifestyle changes could positively impact his health and well-being. In this episode of Fit For My Age, Greg describes his wake-up call that motivated him to make those changes. Greg explains to host Michael Mi...

Paul Bailey is a Berkshire based massage therapist with over 15 years of expertise. He is also the creator of the Harmonic Muscle Release massage technique which he designed to provide intense relief without the discomfort often associated with deep tissue massage. This method blends deep pressure with slow, rhythmic strokes that are carefully timed to match your breathing and the soothing rhythms...

What if you left booze behind? You started with good intentions, just thirty days without alcohol, but somehow you never remembered to return to the booze. That is what Paul McCormack did. In this episode of The Independent Minds Paul explains to Michael Millward how his life changed after just thirty days without an alcoholic drink. It was such a positive change that Paul decided to continue livi...

An increasing number of people are deciding that they want to live an alcohol-free life. Many will use healthy eating campaigns like Dryuary as the catalyst for starting their new alcohol-free life. Yet living alcohol-free can be more complicated than simply switching to soft or alcohol-free versions of your favourite tipple. In this conversation Michael Millward explores with Keith Cronin the fou...

Bracha Goetz is the author of more than forty children’s books that help children's souls shine. In this episode of Fit For My Age Bracha explains to host Michael Millward how being consciously grateful can be the key to achieving a life that is full of joy. Bracha explains the first steps of the Pleasure Ladder, a model of joy that can be used to help you focus on adding more joyful activities to...

Most people don’t start running in their fifties, but then Paul Harvey is not most people. In the latest episode of the special series of Fit For My Age programmes: Learning how to RUN. Paul, who is the host of the Life, Passion, and Business podcast explains to host Michael Millward how he improved his running technique. Paul went from sore knees on the running machine to running a marathon. In a...

Dr Leke Asong is a GP who specialises in gut health. In this episode of Fit For My Age Dr Leke explains to host Michael Millward that most doctors are trained to treat a patient’s symptoms. But as Dr Leke says this is the first step of treatment. Doctors should also investigate the root causes of a patient's condition. In a far-ranging discussion Dr Leke explains that what we consume has an inevit...

Trina Wilcox was diagnosed with Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis (JRA) at the age of six. Some people would have believed that as a result running a marathon would be impossible, but with the help and support of family, friends and coaches Trina has run ten marathons (to date). In this episode of Fit For My Age one of our Learning How to Run series Trina explains to Michael Millward some of the adjus...

Daniel Hauge founder of passion4achievement.com has faced more than his fair share of hard times in his early years. As he reached adulthood, he also reached a cross roads, with two distinct choices. Continue on the road to self-destruction or turn his life around. Daniel chose the later and embarked on an learning journey that enabled him to discover how he really wanted to live. That jouney led...

Nancy Schwartz is a Health, Life and Retirement adviser who thinks that everyone should be thinking more about how we want to live in retirement before we retire. Too many people, she says, wait until they don’t have to go to work anymore to decide how they want to live in retirement. In this episode of Fit For My Age Nancy explains to host Michael Millward how anyone can build a plan for retireme...

Over eight years as a personal trainer Scott Friedman  witnessed a lot of people struggle fulfil their fitness aspirations. They were putting the work in, but the results didn’t materialise. Scott decided that this provided a great opportunity for him, so he set about finding out why his great workout programmes and diet did not work for some people. His research identified that before attemp...

Cathy Nesbitt is a Worm Advocate, Sprout Grower, and Laughter Yoga Teacher.  In the 2002 Cathy decided that setting up a worm composting business would be a good way to contribute to protecting the environment.  After ten years of hearing people make derisory comments, she almost made the decision to give up. But then Cathy discovered Laughter Yoga. The lessons she learnt about life save...

Yannick Picard had a successful career in property sales until a series of events made him review his life.  The result of that review was a career change. Now Yannick is a coach helping people identify and manage the saboteurs that stop them from achieving their potential. In this episode of Fit For My Age Yannick explains to Michael Millward what a saboteur is and that we should not always...

Stranded away from home during the COVID pandemic Rui da Silva looked at his iPhone as it processed another software update and decided that he needed an emotional update. That led to a review of how he lived his life and the establishment of Balanced Rebel , a health coaching provider. In the episode of Fit For My Age Rui explains  how humans create and manage energy and  how we can all...

When the gym I attend True Personal Training in Wetherby launched a running club, I somehow ended up as a runner. It wasn’t planned but I caught the bug! Now running has become a fun new part of my health and fitness routine. To learn more about running I watched videos, read books, magazines, visited websites, and listened to a lot of podcasts. I decided to invite the experts that I learnt the mo...

Helen Bennett is a food coach, who helps binge eaters, bulimics & "grey area disordered eaters" all over the world, regain control and create a healthy relationship with food again. Helen has personal experience of being someone who was successful and appeared to be in control of her life, until she was behind closed doors with food, when all control was lost.  For 20 years Helen followed...

In 2023 it was estimated that ten percent of the men in the United States had some form of mental health condition. It's fair to say that a man must be one in a million to be a successful international model. After a successful professional sports career Jonathan Niziol became a successful international model with representation in all the major markets. He has featured as the ideal man on the cov...

Most employers recognise the potential of sport to help build teams and give people confidence. But for many of their employees, participation in sport ended when they left education. So, how do you create a sport related employee event that delivers benefits for both the employer and their employees. Especially for people who haven’t participated in sport for many years. In 2016 John McClarey fou...

When news broke that two of the richest businessmen in the world are keen participants in martial arts, social media burst into action planning a bout between the two and predicting who might win. It then became apparent that these two billionaires are not the only successful and powerful men who are actively involved in martial arts. So, Michael Millward, managing director of Abeceder and host of...

Fit For My Age host Michael Millward, the managing director of Abeceder meets Spencer Cave, a gymfluencer. Like many people Spencer didn’t really enjoy playing sport at school, the sports on offer in PE lessons didn’t really work for him. When he left school, he decided to find a sport that worked for him. Spence found that sport in the gym. He started working on himself, built his strength and ch...

Fit For My Age host Michael Millward, the managing director of Abeceder meets Nicole Berschback from The Total Potential to discuss the benefits of taking a family approach to achieving a higher level of health and wellbeing that informs every aspect of family life. We live in a world that tells us we must be the best version of ourselves, and that if we just try hard enough, we can have it all. I...

In this episode of Fit For My Age from Abeceder, Michael Millward meets Mustufa Kanmiya from MK Fitness. There are many reasons why people join a gym. Some people want to build a great body. Others want to get lose weight, whilst for some people it is a social activity, with health benefits. Mustufa explains his own reasons for identifying that he needed to start going to the gym. Initially there...

In the first episode of Fit For My Age Michael Millward meets Andy Romero Birkbeck the founder of We are Wellbeing. After discussing their shared interest in all things chocolate Michael and Andy discuss why women find it easier to talk about health issues than men do. They explore how the decisions we make in the past impact the quality of health and wellbeing we have today and will have in the f...

Michael Millward provides a short introduction to Fit For My Age, the health and wellbeing podcast from Abeceder.co.uk , which is published in association with WorkWorkWork.works  In this introduction to Fit For My Age Michael explains 0.38 - What Fit For My Age is 1.11 -  Why Abeceder launched Fit For My Age 2.28 - What you will hear on Fit For My Age 4.25 - What to do when Fit For My A...