I am Age-Fit. Born January 1943. By most people’s standards I still work full time but by my own standards I work part time now to allow me time to help people the Age-Fit way
As well as many years of great success in business and sport I have experienced all the psychological and financial negatives of international business going wrong. I do not allow a long list of major sport injuries and surgeries, to affect my life nor the surprise described below.
PLEASE TAKE A LOOK AT THIS HOME PAGE. IN A FEW MINUTES YOU WILL KNOW IF IT INTERESTS YOU.
IF SO CLICK ON ANY OF MY MEMORY BANK FOLDERS THAT GRABS YOUR ATTENTION – NEW ADDITIONS COMING ALL THE TIME
AGE-FIT exercises are simple and effective
These are not exercise programs for elite athletes
Age-Fit takes on the challenges faced by 60+year olds
As we get older we face increasing limitations to our balance, flexibility, posture, strength and stamina. Our minds face new challenges
Regular simple exercising can hold back these limitations, even reverse them
The main differences between Age-Fit exercise and the exercise programs followed by younger people looking to improve physical performance and/or appearance are:-
- The intensity of Age-Fit exercise is at a much lower level than for youngsters
- Age-Fit sessions are especially beneficial in groups mixing physical exercise with conversation. Discussions during exercise sessions can be great for mind stimulation
Iain Exeter. Winner – Machine Tool Engineer – Millionaire – Sportsman – Athletics – Rugby – Tennis – Motor Racing – Golf -Obsessive – Fighter – Critic – Loser (Financial)
My first important memory. 1947. I won the kid’s under 7 race at Hayling Island Holiday camp. Aged 4, I was the youngest and had a 3 yard start. My dad said I didn’t need it. Since that day I have loved competition, being fit and winning
Angela and I were married in the Eltham College Chapel, by the school Chaplain, the Rev. Cooper. Graham Matthews, another Old Elthamian, was married in the chapel a few years earlier.
Barry Ellis, my best man (2nd from right in the ushers photo) and Rob Carter, another life long OE friend, were also married in the chapel.
All these marriages have lasted a lifetime, so unusual in today’s world.
Maintain an active body together with an active mind to enjoy the rest of your life
Active body – two big years in my life are captured in the 1947 photo above when I realize how much I love competing and winning and in the photo and film from 2018 on my 75th birthday when I realize in the gym I am now competing only with myself.
Re-think needed. Can’t go back to rugby (I wish!) or motor racing so decision needed
Decision made – take golf seriously and try to be competitive. I now play 18 holes Saturday and Sunday and the target I set to get down to 80 before my 80th birthday I achieved May 22nd 2022. So I set a new target – get down to 75 by my 85th birthday
Active mind – my mind is stimulated and challenged all the time at work and at home because I have a huge memory bank supported by 80 years of photos from my life in business and sport, my schooldays and my family and friends.
These photos activate my memories, challenge my recall and together with working full time keep me alert, my mind rarely switches off
I am currently organizing my photos into group displays in my garage where I also have my Trophy Wall. Just organizing the photos is a major memory stimulation. Do it for yourself – it is your life and they are your memories. Make the most of them!
These are not exercise programs for elite athletes
Age-Fit takes on the challenges faced by 60+ year olds
As we get older we face increasing limitations to our balance, flexibility, posture, strength and stamina. Our minds face new challenges
Regular simple exercising can hold back these limitations, even reverse them
The main differences between Age-Fit exercise and the exercise programs followed by younger people looking to improve physical performance and/or appearance are:-
- The intensity of Age-Fit exercise is at a much lower level than for youngsters
- Age-Fit sessions are especially beneficial in groups mixing physical exercise with conversation. Discussions during exercise sessions can be great for mind stimulation
INTRODUCTION TO MY MEMORY BANK
I believe that you should grow your memory bank continuously
So do the obvious, make the effort – keep growing the memory bank!
Photographs are very key to stimulating your memories and exercising your mind so get out the old albums. If you have dozens and dozens of albums like me then think about being selective putting together digital albums like my RUGBY and MY GYM & RAM RUN albums. The process of selecting exercises the memory more than you can imagine
Then do the opposite In the major, lifetime folders like FAMILY, FRIENDS & HOLIDAYS.
Put in large bundles of photos in no order – another good mind exercise going from one who/when/where to another who/when/where
Take a look at my photos, you may see something that starts your own memory working – great!
If anything attracts your interest and you want to ask me about it, email me – iain@age-fit.com
As an engineer, a serious sportsman and elite sports coach I always want quality performance. In a break from engineering I set up my own gym. To be insured I needed to be certified so age 67 I started on the road to these qualifications. Before jumping back into machine tools for one last go I had 5 years training people from 84 years to 5 years old. Our KID-FIT program was very successful but now my greater concentration is on Age-Fit. It is very relevant to me, I am the Age-Fit experience
Because of my business and sports history I can combine physical exercise with mental stimulation – vital as you get older
It helps to break up exercise sessions with animated discussion. My business and sporting life enables me to do this on many subjects
But I have another advantage – my family. I am the 2nd of four generations of fitness professionals.
- My elder son Tim had just started playing rugby for Scotland when he broke his neck. He was very lucky to be alive and even luckier not to be disabled, he just had to avoid any contact sport. He became of top strength and conditioning coach to international football and rugby teams, F1 and other drivers, boxers, golfers, cricketers. He now designs and equips high level fitness facilities.
- Tim’s wife, Helen, is a highly rated advanced Pilates instructor
- My granddaughter Megan, has her own gym – MEGABOX – in The Pilates suite is located there
- Another stimulus for conversations – My younger son Mike is a very good musician with advanced technical capabilities. In addition to being the recording engineer for Black Sabbath, Judas Priest and others he also co-writes with Tony Iommi. Having recovered from a serious depression following the death of his friend Ronnie James Dio he now mentors and lectures to young people, helping them through difficult times
Having played for Scotland U21 this was to be his only senior game. A serious hamstring injury caused him to pull out of Scotlands summer tour. Fully fit for the 89/90’ season he was flying and was selected for the 5 Nations Squad (to be Grand Slam winners). A few weeks before the first match he broke his neck. His activities since are described above
Like his brother he was a very fast sprinter. Persuaded to run his first ever competition here he is beating a Kent Schools runner at 200m.
He also won 100m and long jump. Middle school champion
He retired from sport the same day!
The family sporting tradition started with my father, Ken Exeter. He was a successful athlete and became a high level coach. At this time athletics was controlled by AAA, the Amateur Athletics Association, and my father rose to their highest level as a 3 A’s International Coach. The photo shows him with some of his trophies. In my trophy wall I have this photo and the 1938 Vickers, Crayford and Dartford track runners cup. VCD athletic club was a huge, high level team. As a highly qualified mechanical engineer my father worked for Vickers throughout the war. He is somewhere in the photo on the right – 14,500 VCD engineers celebrating on the day in 1945 that WW2 was announced as over. Five years later following a dispute with his union, he was working too fast!, he left to start his own company. He joined Cambridge Harriers and later became President. An innovative high quality man in everything he did
TAKE YOUR TIME! If I have interested you this far remember this is all about a very full 80 year life that intends to go on and on and some of the content may interest you, maybe jolt your own memory bank.
Physical fitness – the easy part – discipline in doing the right exercise and eating the right food. I proved that the hard way (Challenge)
Fitness of your mind is so much harder to maintain as we get older. I hope you will see how hard I have worked to create my memory bank. I believe very strongly that memories stimulate mind fitness.
We have a small house now but I have made room for a Trophy Wall to remind me of achievements not to forget
