{"id":2051,"date":"2024-06-12T20:31:08","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T20:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo-websitedesigns.com\/david-frost\/v1\/?p=2051"},"modified":"2024-06-12T20:31:08","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T20:31:08","slug":"fitness-trainer-dave-frost-5-things-you-should-do-to-optimize-your-wellness-after-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo-websitedesigns.com\/david-frost\/v1\/fitness-trainer-dave-frost-5-things-you-should-do-to-optimize-your-wellness-after-retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"Fitness Trainer Dave Frost: 5 Things You Should Do to Optimize Your Wellness After Retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"
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My goal in this chapter of my life is to encourage others to Join the Movement to KABOOM their way to party past ninety \u2014 holistically. Our national statistics for HIGH and escalating health care costs for boomers\u00a0can<\/strong>\u00a0be mitigated by conscious habits and lifestyle choices. TWENTY percent of all cancers are preventable! The top cause of death in America just may be our American diet! Most cases of adult diabetes, metabolic syndromes, and non-alcoholic fatty diseases can be mitigated with wellness and lifestyle HABITS. Yet, the first steps are hardest. MOVE, as Motion is Medicine.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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As<\/span>a part of my series about the \u201c5 Things You Should Do to Optimize Your Wellness After Retirement\u201d, I had the pleasure of interviewing Dave Frost.<\/em><\/p>\n

David E. Frost is a NFPT-certified Master Fitness Trainer, a rowing coach, champion competitor, and award-winning adjunct professor. After decorated careers in the US Navy and business world, he founded Well Past Forty LLC to promote wellness and longevity for others, like him, who are baby boomers. David earned his Bachelor of Science degree from the US Naval Academy, and his Master of Systems Management degree from University of Southern California with a focus on human factors.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Thank you so much for doing this with us! Our readers would love to \u201cget to know you\u201d a bit better. Can you share with us the backstory about what brought you to your specific career path<\/strong>?<\/p>\n

I<\/span>needed to rise, like a phoenix, after herniating my L5-S1 spinal disk in 2001. What I learned (or re-learned) in my recovery after spinal fusion served as my context and content for: authoring \u201cKABOOMER: Thriving and Striving into your Nineties\u201d, for becoming a Master Fitness Trainer, and for offering \u201cpeer\u201d professional training\/coaching to others who want to KABOOM.<\/p>\n

Can you share the most interesting story that happened to you since you started your career?<\/strong><\/p>\n

This story is why you haven\u2019t seen me in streaming videos or on the big screen:<\/p>\n

When serving as president of the San Diego Rowing Club, I received a surprise phone call. A jingle from a movie producer about a sports movie. A flick with my special sport, rowing, as part of the storyline. A storyline that commissioned\u00a0real\u00a0<\/em>actors Christopher Lloyd and James Galdofini. We shot our cameo crew scenes on Mission Bay one morning and hoped for a big screen release. Well, the big screen never arrived. Our marquee lead, James Galdofini, passed away before his \u201cshoots.\u201d That was my last $58.00-day as an aspiring actor, but that was far from my last day of rowing (thankfully). Add Galdofini\u2019s \u201cway of life\u201d diet to his ample alcohol consumption, and what resulted?\u00a0Muerto<\/em>. Your Koach asserts that a clean diet woulda coulda improved Galdofini\u2019s lifestyle and longevity.<\/p>\n

Can you share a story with us about the most humorous mistake you made when you were first starting? What lesson or take-away did you learn from that?<\/strong><\/p>\n

My mistakes are many, yet I hope that this Koach has learned from those.<\/p>\n

One rather erroneous story is about the word ERG(ometer) which means \u201cwork\u201d and how we have come to define indoor rowing machines \u2014 which are a big part of my livelihood as an athlete and group fitness instructor.<\/p>\n

The Ergometer<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026an awful torture machine that should be illegal under the<\/p>\n

Eighth Amendment, but that gets out of jail free under a\u00a0loophole<\/em><\/p>\n

that it is \u2018fun<\/em>.\u2019 Commonly used in the regime of an evil<\/p>\n

dictator by the name of \u2018Coach\u2019 and his\/her faithful servant,<\/p>\n

the \u2018coxswain.\u2019 Originally derived from the Greek word meaning<\/p>\n

\u2018to work,\u2019 which is what one does \u2014 very, very hard, for a<\/p>\n

long, long time.\u201d<\/p>\n

My lesson(s) learned?\u00a0<\/em>Listen to your coach and coxswain, laugh 15 minutes each day, and remember that the only easy training day was\u2026yesterday<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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None of us are able to achieve success without some help along the way. Is there a particular person who you are grateful towards who helped get you to where you are? Can you share a story about that?<\/strong><\/p>\n

You bet!<\/p>\n

For marital harmony and much more, my grateful shout out is to my wife of 44 years \u2014 Mary.<\/p>\n

Others call her \u201cSaint Mary\u201d for a good reason!<\/p>\n

My own story about STAMINA for stayin\u2019 alive might have ended prematurely if St. Mary hadn\u2019t encouraged me to go to a sleep professional.<\/p>\n

I might have died from an apnea-induced accident or health condition.<\/p>\n

She was sure that my breath stoppages for over a minute, dozing and snoring were Unhealthy. Bless her!<\/p>\n

Now, I can share up close and personal how precious one\u2019s restorative sleep is if one is to build her or his physical 401(K) portfolio!<\/p>\n

If I may stretch past the number \u201c1\u201d,<\/p>\n

I am particularly grateful to my New England forebears and parents, to my wonderful wife, Mary, and to my collegiate rowing coach, Carl Ullrich, who is of the Greatest Generation known to mankind. Two incredible kids helped make this Koach who he is. True thanks to my artist, Austeja. High kudos to Uncle Sam and his extraordinary soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines, plus their dependents who serve US every day. I proudly tip my naval cover to Academy colleagues,\u201cfl ower children\u201d classmates, and to my shipmates for the tangible and intangible gifts they proffered to me. And to my many hundreds of students and clients: Gracias! KABOOM.<\/p>\n

What advice would you suggest to your colleagues in your industry to thrive and avoid burnout?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Remember that we are born to move and sweat. Your lives are long journeys rather than sprints, so pacing is important.<\/p>\n

When you don\u2019t have anything that must be done, DON\u2019T do something!<\/p>\n

Conversely, when be that somebody in Charles Osgood\u2019s Responsibility Poem when something needs to get done!<\/p>\n

What advice would you give to other leaders about how to create a fantastic work culture?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I hugely believe that exemplifying a Platinum Rule is excellent for best cultures at work and play.<\/p>\n