I need to inform you a tragic story that, fortunately, has a contented ending.
I’m hoping it offers each you and your canine a more healthy, stronger yr forward.
I’ve a buddy — let’s name her Susan. (I’m altering her identify to guard her privateness, however her story is actual.)
Susan is in her late 60s and has been an avid swimmer for years. She’s the type of one who may swim laps with the grace of a dolphin. I used to joke that she should have been a mermaid in her earlier life.
However about 18 months in the past, her shoulder seized up.
And immediately, the factor that stored her sturdy and energized — swimming — disappeared from her life.
With out train, Susan modified.
Each time I noticed her, she seemed just a little smaller… just a little weaker… nearly as if she was slowly withering.
It broke my coronary heart.
I may see her confidence in full restoration slipping, she turned anxious and anxious, seeing that the present therapy plans she was supplied weren’t working. And confidence is tied to power greater than most individuals notice.
A couple of months in the past, when she got here for a go to, worrying about her harm, I supplied to point out her a easy power routine.
We didn’t begin with something dramatic.
No heavy weights. No lung-shredding cardio. We stored issues good and simple: mild, managed actions designed to get up muscle tissue that had gone dormant.
After we first began, Susan couldn’t even carry a 5 pound weight with out my assist.
However after her second session, she despatched me a message that made my day: “Peter, I walked up the steps right this moment and observed it felt simpler.”
That’s how power works. A bit of effort can go a great distance, particularly as we grow old. However then, Susan unexpectedly stopped coming and regardless of us assembly a number of occasions for a go to, she by no means talked about her train.
I think, she was instructed by her bodily therapist not to do that. I didn’t dare to ask.
I solely know that they’ve been treating her ineffectively for the reason that harm began 18 months in the past.
After we lose power, every little thing will get tougher: climbing stairs, lifting groceries, getting up from the ground after enjoying with a canine toy that by some means rolled beneath the sofa.
Even worse, dropping power additionally comes with falling extra usually, and falls and fractures are one of many main causes of shortened lifespan.
About 30% of individuals by no means regain the power previous to their harm.
The stats are scary, as soon as we’re in our 50s, 60s, and past, dropping power turns into the rule not the exception — until we take motion.
The reality is, constructing power is the closest factor we’ve acquired to sipping from the Fountain of Youth.
After we construct power:
Steadiness improves
Joints are stronger and extra versatile
We fall much less usually (and bounce again quicker if we do)
Our metabolism works higher
Our confidence grows
We dwell longer, too.
In reality, research present that staying lively as we age is linked to a 30% — 40% decrease threat of dying from any trigger. ¹
Protecting power actually is the grasp key to ageing effectively.
Sure, meals issues. So does sleep and dietary supplements.
However constructing and sustaining a robust physique is the inspiration upon which every little thing else is constructed.
In fact, we don’t do that only for ourselves.
I do know you like your canine — that’s why we’re related within the first place.
And our canines want us to be sturdy, cell, and lively.
They want us to stroll them on these chilly mornings when the blanket is looking. They want us to carry them into the automobile when their very own hips get stiff.
They want us to information them via their golden years with love, endurance… and power.
If we keep sturdy, we get extra years of heartwarming recollections collectively.
And should you’ve ever confronted the heartbreak of dropping a canine too quickly, you know the way treasured yearly — daily — actually is.
There may be solely a restricted variety of summers now we have collectively.
As you learn this e-mail, you is perhaps pondering, “Peter, I do know I ought to get stronger, however I don’t know the place to start out.”
You’re not alone should you really feel that method.
Perhaps you’ve stepped away from the health club and the concept of going again feels intimidating.
Perhaps you by no means preferred the health club and would fairly keep residence however you don’t know learn how to get began.
Perhaps your joints ache, and also you’re fearful of doing one thing unsuitable.
I get it.
I’ve seen so many individuals freeze at this precise level. Not due to a frozen shoulder, however as a result of constructing power feels complicated or overwhelming.
It’s laborious work!
That’s why I need to share a free useful resource that may provide help to begin safely at residence, with out feeling judged or pushed too laborious.
My associate, Dean, has been a physiotherapist/bodily therapist for over 30 years.
He’s additionally a yoga trainer and health coach — a mixture that makes him mild, sensible, and laser-focused on serving to you enhance power and mobility. He simply turned 70 so his instructing stems from his personal private expertise of staying sturdy, cell and pain-free.
On his YouTube channel, Dean shares knowledgeable steerage and easy workout routines that enhance core power, steadiness, and useful motion.
He additionally takes our human line merchandise recurrently together with FeelGood Omega H+, JointButter H+ and GreenMin H+ to forestall osteoporosis and fractures.
That is the type of power that helps you stroll farther, stand up out of your mattress or sofa extra simply, and help your canine as they age too.
If anybody may also help you construct and keep power in a method that feels doable, it’s Dean. (BTW, he simply got here again from Nepal, spending two weeks climbing at altitude of 15 – 18 000 toes to rejoice his 70’s.)
Listed below are 20 free movies that will help you keep sturdy, energized, and lively this yr.
Power retains us transferring ahead — actually.
It offers us the liberty to stroll farther, heal quicker, and keep lively because the years go by.
And it offers our canines extra of the one factor they need most from us: time.
So in 2026, I hope you discover a routine that retains you sturdy — for your self, and for the canine who’s relying on you.
