I’m Logan Franklin,
Exercise and Fitness Advocate
Thanks for dropping by. I should say right away that I am not a doctor, nor do I have any kind of medical training other than First Aid courses and CPR. I believe anyone, and especially any senior, should have a physical examination and discussion with his or her doctor before starting a fitness program.
My work background has been in newspapers and publishing (I retired from the field several years ago). That experience has made me pretty good at looking things up, sorting through them, and finding what is important. Still, what makes me think I know something worth sharing about senior fitness is a good question?
As I write this today, I am 71 years old. I began exercising in my early teens and, in one form of exercise or another, I’ve never stopped. The pictures here show me at about ages 15, 34, and 67. With all that flexing, you might wonder why I didn’t take things further to become a competitive bodybuilder. Well, I liked what weight training did for me, but competition bodybuilding did not appeal to me personally. Even so, some of my earliest positive impressions of weight training came from the pre-steroid Strength & Health and Iron Man health and muscle magazines of the 1950s. And certainly I was greatly influenced by the first gym I ever belonged to, the famous Yarick’s Gym in Oakland, California.
So weight training, for the most part, has been at the center of my fitness workouts. However, there are other sports, exercise practices, and outdoor activities I have been involved in over the years. They included martial arts, swimming, running, handball, and backpacking. I have been a high school soccer coach and a certified personal trainer and cardio-kickboxing instructor. My wife Patty and I have team taught classes at a health club.I have written two books on senior fitness, Gray Iron: A Fitness Guide for Senior Men and Women, and Living the Fitness Lifestyle.
The Senior-Exercise-Central site combines my fondness for information gathering with exercise and fitness experience to provide seniors with honest and practical information. -Logan Franklin
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