Summary: Allan Misner, the author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Wellness-Roadmap-Straightforward-Health-Fitness-ebook/dp/B07KBFJ484/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Wellness Roadmap</a>, is a certified personal trainer, as well as a certified functional aging specialist. He’s the creator of the 40+ Fitness Community which provides one on one and group fitness coaching, nutritional guidance, and personal training for clients over the age of 40. He’s also the host of the 40+ Fitness Podcast, where he’s interviewed hundreds of health and wellness experts.<br> This episode is for people who are finding it harder and harder to stay fit as they get older. It’s harder to lose weight because they’ve had decades of mediocre or even poor exercise and eating habits. After they’ve hit 40 years old, they notice it’s substantially different from how they felt when they were healthy in their 20s.<br> This episode is really for anybody who is tired of wasting time with fad diets and training programs designed for millennials. Allan has a really awesome system. I study mental health, emotional health, physical health, and I’ve been sort of in this space myself for several years. It was almost uncanny how many topics Allan covered that I’ve seen not only work on a personal level but are also backed by science as some of the most effective ways to get healthy and get fit, both on a physical level and on an emotional and a spiritual level. This episode will help you along the path—it is your roadmap.<br> <br> <br> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Wellness-Roadmap-Straightforward-Health-Fitness-ebook/dp/B07KBFJ484/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a>Get Allan’s new book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Wellness-Roadmap-Straightforward-Health-Fitness-ebook/dp/B07KBFJ484/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Wellness Roadmap</a> on Amazon.<br> Find out more at <a href="http://wellnessroadmapbook.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">WellnessRoadmapBook.com</a>.<br> <br> <br> Allan Misner: I was a C-suite executive at a Fortune 500 company. I had income, I had stuff, and I decided I really needed to take a break and go on vacation. So I went back to Puerto Vallarta and I went out, there was a volleyball game and I love sand volleyball, it’s one of my favorite sports, I’ve loved playing it my entire adult life, since I was first introduced to it.<br> But what I found was, that I couldn’t stay in the game. I had to sub out and was the first time in my life that I just felt like I had lost something important. I was sitting on the beach the next morning meditating.<br> Starting the Rollercoaster<br> Charlie Hoehn: Were you running out of breath, were you physically exhausted? What was happening?<br> Allan Misner: Yeah, I was exhausted. I thought I was basically on the verge of having a heart attack and dying.<br> It wasn’t a call the hospital thing, it was just the exertion of trying to play in the sand, even when I knew I was moving really slow and missing points and costing my team. I’m uber competitive when it comes to those types of things. For me to lose a point, I was mad at myself, as I would be at a professional player when you’re yelling at the TV. I’m yelling at myself—the way I put it, a fat bastard. Even to myself.<br> The next morning, I’m sitting down to meditate, and I’m like, okay, what are the things I need to do to fix this to get myself bac? I’m only 39 years old and suddenly I’m an old, fat bastard. It was just kind of one of those moments where I said okay, I have to change.<br> I started down the path of this rollercoaster of having some good times and some bad times over the course of the next 10, 11 years. It was just this huge struggle for me to figure out what I needed to do.<br> Finally it all clicked into place. It wasn’t any just one little time where I said okay, I got it, I figured it out, it was a series of lessons over the course of about...
