Benji Cole of CBS Radio interviews Nicholas Prukop, the author of “Healthy Aging and You: Your Journey to Becoming Happy, Healthy & Fit”
Nicholas Prukop, the fitness professional and author of “Healthy Aging and You: Your Journey to Becoming Happy, Healthy & Fit”, is interviewed by CBS Radio’s Benji Cole. They delve into the book’s message as well as the author’s purpose for writing it.
Nicholas Prukop was born in Maui and considers himself a Maui boy. He grew up there as a competitive swimmer. His love for sports and fitness began on Maui in the 50s. His life moved on to playing, coming to school, and training as a swimmer, and his love for sport and fitness was fostered from there. The background he had was a great reminder that his love of being fit has always been with him.
The author shares that being busy getting fit was a blessing to him as he overcame the pandemic pressures. He continues to work toward the goals that he has set. Now, he pursues not only being an author but as a speaker, as well. He humbles himself and finds it an opportunity to help others have a better tomorrow. One of the things we can do today is to make our choices today.
Prukop is a fitness professional with over twenty-five years of experience in the industry. He has served clients of all ages during the course of his career as an ACE Certified Health Coach and Personal Trainer. The clients he served came to him from all backgrounds and with a variety of health and fitness challenges, giving him the wisdom and insight he now shares with the readers in “Healthy Aging & You: Your Journey to Becoming Happy, Healthy & Fit”.
His father’s death from cancer in 1983, at the age of 64, touched him deeply and had a profound effect on his own life. He promised himself that he would live his life in service to others and use his knowledge of fitness to help people of all ages grow “older—and not old”. The result is his continuing effort today to help people find their own way to a healthier and happier life.
He is committed to making a difference in the lives of people as they face the challenges of aging in the 21st century. His mission is to “become the example of the change he wishes to see in the world” while enabling and empowering people to begin their own journey of self-discovery, leading to a life “well lived” —becoming happy, healthy, & fit.
The premise of this book is to illuminate and clarify some of the recent information on healthy aging as it is evolving and to provide insight, guidance, help, and yes, even wisdom for those of you who wish to start NOW down the road to becoming happy, healthy, and fit as you get “older—and not old”.
It has been said that we “spend our health accumulating our wealth and spend our wealth to get our health back once it’s gone”. This is just wrong in this book. Why not live and maximize your opportunities for health and wealth TODAY and shed the regret, guilt, anguish, and pain of what we COULD have done differently?
The past is gone—we cannot change it. Living in the present is the only sure way to begin this journey of becoming happy, healthy, and fit for life—so why not start here and now? We are the new pioneers of a new paradigm on aging, and the author personally can’t wait to find out what is possible—for ALL of us.
“I want to be able to run a 6-minute mile on my 80th birthday. What do you want to be able to do at a comparable age? Walk on the Great Wall of China? Fly a plane? Or just play with your grandchildren? Take a step into your future by deciding TODAY to examine yourself openly and honestly—and see what happens. You could be in for a BIG and happy surprise!”
– Nicholas Prukop
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