Aches and pains in your 60s can feel like a bill that comes due no matter how active you’ve been, and Amy’s story is a good example of why that isn’t the whole picture. Amy came to see me in her 60s. She skied, hiked and gardened, so she thought of herself as an athlete, but her body was starting to let her down, and her activities and her life were suffering for it.
Coach’s Corner
Amy put it this way afterward: “I considered myself an athlete, but I had no awareness I needed this.” I hear versions of that a lot, and I understand why, because staying active and staying balanced are two different things, and active people are often the last to notice the gap.
Why Aches and Pains in Your 60s Show Up Even When You’re Active
Every activity you repeat makes you better at that activity, and it leaves its own pattern of wear behind. Skiing leaves one pattern, hiking leaves another, and gardening leaves a third, and those patterns stack up over the years. Doing a variety of things is good for you, but it doesn’t make your body balanced, and the wear from one activity doesn’t get erased by another. That’s how someone can be strong, active and achy all at once.
What Changed for Amy
Amy joined our classes and started with a complimentary private session. The first three months were hard work, and after that her aches were gone and she had more energy. She was shocked at how badly she needed this, and impressed by how much better her body felt and moved. Her result is hers, and every body is different, but her story shows what can happen when you stop adding more activity and start balancing the body that does all of it.
What This Means for Your Own Training
For aches and pains in your 60s, the idea behind her program is the same one behind everything we teach: balance your body as best you can, and train what your activities use most so those areas can handle the load. That means training in three ways that work together, which are proprioception so your joints can sense and react, stretching so your tissues can move freely, and strength built one piece at a time, which we call segmental strengthening, and then built globally. A 2024 review of balance programs for older adults found that proprioceptive and sensorimotor exercise improved balance across 12 studies, although the authors rate the evidence as low quality and call for more research. We also use ELDOA, which works on the joints.
Where to Start
Amy started with classes and a private session at the studio. For the lower back and the pelvis, our two online courses are built on the same idea of the right pieces, in the right order, connected to each other. Each course is normally $350, and right now you can get the Lower Back ELDOA course for $52 and add Big Bang at checkout for $164, which makes $216 for both. They are one piece of a growing system, not the whole answer.
If you want the bigger picture behind all of this, the video from earlier this month, It’s Not Age: Why Your Body Aches (and What Actually Fixes It) (make this title a bold link to covers it.
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