The Over 50 Health & Wellness Podcast

Text us a comment or question! You want to lose twenty pounds. Your coach’s first instruction? Stop trying to lose weight. Wait… what? If you’ve spent years eating less, pushing harder, and losing and regaining the same weight, that advice might sound backward. But another restrictive diet may be skipping the very thing you need: a stronger foundation. In this episode of The Over 50 Health & Wellness Show, Kevin English returns to his upcoming book, Fully Alive: A Blueprint for Building t...

Text us a comment or question! What do you want your health for? To travel without worrying about keeping up? Play with your grandkids? Pursue a passion you’ve put on hold? Build a second half of life that you’re genuinely excited to live? This week, we’re taking a brief break from our Fully Alive book series for a conversation that fits perfectly with everything we’ve been exploring: building a strong, healthy, capable body—and giving yourself something meaningful to do with it. Kevin sits d...

Text us a comment or question! What if you hit your goal weight… but still didn’t have the energy, strength, or confidence to live the life you wanted? Would that really feel like success? In this episode of The Over 50 Health & Wellness Show, Kevin English continues reading from his upcoming book, Fully Alive, with Chapter 10: “The New Goal - Strong, Healthy, and Capable.” This chapter wraps up Part II - Build a Body - with a question that changes the entire conversation: What are we act...

Text us a comment or question! What if the problem isn’t that you need more cardio - but that you’ve been expecting cardio to do a job it was never designed to do? For years, Kevin believed the answer to weight loss was simple: run more, train harder, and burn more calories. And he didn’t just talk the talk - he ran marathons, completed triathlons, and logged countless hours of training. But eventually, he learned an important lesson - cardio is one of the best things you can do for your heal...

Text us a comment or question! What emotions come to mind when you think about food? For far too many people, the answer isn’t nourishment, enjoyment, or gratitude. It’s guilt, fear, anxiety, confusion, and shame. After decades of conflicting nutrition advice - don’t eat fat, don’t eat carbs, skip breakfast, eat six meals a day, avoid fruit - it’s no wonder so many of us have come to see food as a threat rather than a resource. In this episode of the Behind the Book series, Kevin reads Chapte...