Optimal Aging

By Jay Croft

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Are you a gym owner, personal trainer, or wellness professional looking to grow your business by attracting more clients over 50? Welcome to The Optimal Aging Podcast — your go-to resource for marketing, messaging, and member retention strategies tailored to the powerful 50+ demographic.


Hosted by Jay Croft, founder of Prime Fit Content and longtime fitness writer, this podcast delivers real-world tips, expert interviews, and smart content strategies to help you:


  • Stand out in a crowded fitness market
  • Connect with older clients who value quality
  • Build trust through storytelling and clarity
  • Keep members engaged and coming back


Whether you're launching a new studio or want to grow a thriving community of active agers, you'll find practical, proven advice here — every week.

💡 Topics include:


• Fitness marketing for adults 50+
• Email, video, and blog content that actually works
• Branding, storytelling, and building trust
• Retention strategies for gyms and training studios
• Trends in wellness, longevity, and brain health


Subscribe now and learn how to build a better fitness business — by helping people age well and live better.


Visit: https://primefitcontent.com


Episode Date
What I’m Learning About Consistency—Even When I Fall Short
Oct 09, 2025
Friendship, Reinvention & Resilience: What a College Reunion Taught Me About Aging Well
Oct 02, 2025
How to Help Prevent Alzheimer’s: Mayo Clinic’s Latest Research with Dr. Jonathan Graff-Radford
Sep 25, 2025
Resistance Snacks with Dr. Alan Rozanski: The Cardiologist’s Secret to Aging Well
Sep 18, 2025
Can You Prevent Dementia? Angela Lunde from Mayo Clinic Explains the New Science
Sep 11, 2025
Not All People Over 50 Are Alike – With Dan Ritchie
Sep 04, 2025
How Fit Older Adults Can Stay Engaged in Gyms – Insights from a Fitness Consumer
Aug 28, 2025
Building Trust in a High-Tech World
Aug 21, 2025
5 Lessons from Launching Selling Longevity
Aug 14, 2025
Gym Focus & Fitness Over 50: Rick Mayo on Staying Mission-Driven
Aug 07, 2025
Selling Longevity: How to Attract Over-50 Fitness Clients and Grow Your Business
Jul 31, 2025
The Hidden Key to Aging Well for Women: Strength Training Over 50 with Dr. Cindy Dallow
Jul 24, 2025
Starting Your Online Coaching Business for Older Adults, with Chris Liddle
Jul 17, 2025
The Power of Positivity in Business, Health, and Leadership with Jay Clark
Jul 10, 2025
Cutting Through the Supplement Confusion After 50 with Nikki Raymond
Jul 03, 2025
Elevating Your 50+ Clients to Superhero Status
Jun 26, 2025
How to Use Psychology to Drive Health and Fitness Coaching, with Alex McBrairty
Jun 19, 2025
Beyond the Youth Obsession: Your Gym's Future Is with the Over-50 Market
Jun 10, 2025
How Publishing a Book Can Grow Your Fitness Business with Rick Streb
Jun 05, 2025
How a Physical Therapist Grew Her Wellness Business with Real-World Marketing
May 22, 2025
Alzheimer’s Isn’t Inevitable: Amy Lang on Lifestyle, Family History, and Protecting Brain Health
May 08, 2025
How Adventure Travel Can Motivate Your 50+ Fitness Clients
May 01, 2025
Marketing to Active Agers: Real Talk to Grow Your Gym
Apr 24, 2025
Content Marketing That Converts: Lessons from 3 Fitness Leaders Serving Adults 50+
Apr 17, 2025
Mastering Content Marketing for the 50+ Fitness Audience
Apr 10, 2025
Meet Your Audience Where They Already Are When Marketing Fitness over 50
Mar 27, 2025
Club Pilates Founder Bets on Red Light Therapy | Fitness Franchise Trends for 50+ Clients
Mar 20, 2025
Email Marketing that Moves the Needle for 50+ Fitness Clients — with Lara Gallert of Alloy
Mar 13, 2025
What Gyms Get Wrong about Marketing Fitness over 50 | The Optimal Aging Podcast
Mar 06, 2025
How a Veteran Trainer in Houston Is Delivering In-Home Personal Training to Over-50 Clients
Feb 27, 2025
Finding New Ways to Share 'Ageless' Fitness after 50 with Shebah Carfagna and Nate Wilkins
Feb 21, 2025
Alloy's Nick Garrity on His Year of Growth with the 'Older' Fitness Market
Feb 13, 2025
Why Email Newsletters Are So Vital to Your Fitness-over-50 Business
Feb 06, 2025
Skin Health after 50 Is More than Botox: Not That There's Anything Wrong with That! With Dr. Mary Alice Mina
Jan 30, 2025
Longevity, Ozempic and Other Trends Shaping Fitness Now, Connected Health & Fitness Summit
Jan 23, 2025
Hormones, Sex, and Staying Attractive: How Fitness Fits into Preventive Care after 50. Season 3, Episode 1
Jan 16, 2025
Marketing Small Group Personal Training to People over 50, with Author Vince Gabriele.
Sep 17, 2024
From Full-Time Foodie to Powerlifter at 60, One Writer's Empowering Story, with Jill Silva
Sep 03, 2024
It's Worth Repeating: Keep Talking about Muscle after Age 50 (and 3 Other Timeless Topics)
Aug 20, 2024
How to Measure and Improve Mobility after Age 50? There's an App for That
Aug 06, 2024
Communities for Active Agers Are a Far Cry from Outdated Ideas of 'Old Folks Homes'
Jul 24, 2024
5 Branding Strategies for Gyms Targeting the Over-50 Market
Jul 16, 2024
Unlocking Cognitive Health: How Marbles Brain Body Fitness Is Spreading Good News about Aging
Jun 25, 2024
When Is It Too Late to Get Fit? Author Gwendolyn Bounds on Pushing Limits at Any Age
Jun 11, 2024
Answering Questions from Fitness Pros in Over-50 Fitness: Emails, Facebook, and More, with Dan Ritchie of the Functional Aging Institute
May 28, 2024
How Many Emails to Send? Which Social Media to Use? My Functional Aging Content Webinar
May 15, 2024
Using AI and Data to Put Powerful Body Information in Fitness Consumers’ Hands. With Jason Moore of Spren.
Apr 23, 2024
Longevity in Action: 'Keep Moving' as the Key to a Long, Healthy Life, from Those Who Know
Apr 09, 2024
The Hero’s Journey, Emotional Content, and Focusing on the Client Helped Ryan Carver Grow His Utah Gym
Mar 26, 2024
Weight-Loss Expert Amy Lang on How to Stop Negative Thoughts and Build Healthy Habits
Mar 12, 2024
Consistency Pays: Building a Thriving Fitness Business for Older Adults in Nashville
Feb 27, 2024
Overcoming Alcoholism to Forge a Health Legacy: Gary's Inspirational Fitness Journey at 50+
Feb 13, 2024
Alloy's Nick Garrity Shares Secrets of Serving the 'Older' Market While Expanding His Fitness Footprint. (REMASTERED for Improved Audio)
Jan 30, 2024
Should Gyms Provide Ozempic and Wegovy to Fitness Clients? Here's What You Need to Know.
Jan 23, 2024
How High-Tech, Big-Data Innovation Is Improving Functional Fitness and More.
Jan 09, 2024
Health, Sex and More: Men Tell Us What Finally Got Them to Embrace Fitness over 50.
Dec 05, 2023
Should You Workout on Vacation? Finding the Balance in Fitness over 50
Nov 28, 2023
Mastering Gym Business Management and Capturing the Over 50 Market, with Dan Uyemura of PushPress.
Nov 14, 2023
Don't Let Fear of Change Hold You Back: 5 New Trends in Marketing Fitness over 50
Oct 31, 2023
Reframing Fitness: A Journey of Adventure and Healthy Habits with Kelly Howard
Oct 17, 2023
Triumph and Transformation: 7 Inspiring Fitness Journeys of Men Over 50
Oct 10, 2023
Tonal Reaches Out to the Active Aging Market -- What's the Future of Connected Fitness Now?
Oct 03, 2023
Thomas Plummer on the Biggest Opportunity in Fitness: Tapping into the 'Older' Sector
Sep 26, 2023
Over-50 Fitness in the Longevity Economy: Growing, Changing and Huge Opportunities, with Content Guru Brian Clark
Sep 19, 2023
Writing Hacks, Content Tips, and How Fitness is a Lot Like Writing: I'm in the Hot Seat This Week.
Sep 12, 2023
Artificial Intelligence and Fitness over 50: How AI Can Help You Grow Your Business.
Sep 05, 2023
Season 2 Preview: We're Back and Tackling AI, Gen X and Lots More about Fitness over 50
Aug 29, 2023
A Government Report Focuses on Over-65 Fitness: How to Use It to Grow Your Business.
Jul 06, 2023
Fighting for Life: How Boxing Helps Parkinson's Patients, with Chris Timberlake of Rock Steady Boxing.
Jun 22, 2023
Women over 50 at War with Their Bodies: Get Off the Dieting Rollercoaster and Find 'Body Peace.'
Jun 13, 2023
Community Involvement Is Key to Growing Your Fitness Business: With 'Mayor' Rocky Snyder of Santa Cruz
Jun 06, 2023
We Need to Talk about Muscle after Age 50: Plus 3 More Topics You're Not Talking about Enough (Even If You Think You Are)
May 18, 2023
Find Fitness Content Inspiration Everywhere -- Even at a Taylor Swift Concert. PLUS: 15 Tips to Always Have Ideas.
May 12, 2023
How to Stand Out with a 'Fans First' Approach to Fitness over 50
May 04, 2023
Unplug Your Content! 10 Tips for Promoting Over-50 Fitness in the Real World.
Apr 26, 2023
Jacked at 60? One Man’s Amazing Transformation and What It Means for Marketing Fitness after 50. With Rami Odeh.
Apr 19, 2023
Our 100th Episode! Celebrate with 10 Highlights from Leaders in Fitness over 50
Apr 13, 2023
Help Fitness Clients over 50 Write Their Own Hero’s Journey: It’s Not About You
Mar 30, 2023
Relentless Positivity: The Power of a Good Attitude in Growing Your Fitness Business and Helping Mature Clients
Mar 16, 2023
Stop Making These 5 Website Mistakes That Cost Your Fitness Business Clients Over 50 -- And Money.
Mar 01, 2023
Money, Marketing and Muscle: A Gym Owner Puts Me in the Hot Seat for a Talk on Fitness Over 50.
Feb 16, 2023
7 Secrets to Understanding Fitness Motivation among People over 50 -- Plus, the No. 1 Tip to Keep Them at Your Gym or Studio.
Feb 03, 2023
Training Older People Is Trendy -- Again. Here's Why You Should Care.
Jan 18, 2023
Should You Carry Vitamins and Supplements for Your Over-50 Fitness Clients?
Jan 04, 2023
How to Approach Your Desired Over-50 Fitness Segment: Part 2 with Alloy's Rick Mayo.
Dec 27, 2022
A Fitness Friendship Helps 76-year-old Spartan Racer Reach His Goals.
Dec 20, 2022
Here's the No. 1 Tip for Gyms and Studios to Help Older Clients Succeed in the New Year.
Dec 15, 2022
Franchising Fitness over 50: How Rick Mayo and Alloy Are Bringing High-End Personal Training to Active Agers.
Nov 29, 2022
How to Build Community and Culture for People over 50 in Your Fitness Studio or Gym, with an Owner Celebrating 15 Years in Business.
Nov 23, 2022
Menopause and Fitness over 50: What Gym and Studio Owners Need to Know, with Selene Yeager
Nov 19, 2022
Do You Need to be on Every Social Media Channel to Reach Fitness Clients over 50?
Nov 15, 2022
What Gym Owners Can Learn from Picasso about Setting Prices and Communicating Confidently.
Nov 04, 2022
How 1 Email Brought in 8 Clients and Untold Value to This Fitness-over-50 Studio
Oct 28, 2022
Why Your Gym Member Profiles Suck – and How to Make Them Sing.
Oct 19, 2022
Here's the Most Important Thing to Consider Before You Start Writing Anything for Your Fitness Business.
Oct 14, 2022
Are You Talking to Your Over-50 Fitness Clients and Prospects Enough? And Are You LISTENING? Ep. 81
Oct 06, 2022
Content Marketing vs. Advertising: Which Is Best for Your Gym or Fitness Studio? Ep. 80
Sep 27, 2022
Here's the BEST Way to Learn the Most about Growing Your Fitness-Over-50 Business Quickly. Ep. 79
Sep 20, 2022
Exercise vs. Dementia Part 2: How a Fitness Studio Launched with Its Unique Mix of Physical and Brain Exercise. Ep. 78
Sep 13, 2022
How Fitness Helped Save This Bodybuilding Gym Owner's Life in a Medical Crisis. Ep. 77
Aug 30, 2022
Expert Tips to Grow Your Fitness-over-50 Business Now, with 3 Gym Owners Who Are Nailing It. Ep. 76
Aug 16, 2022
'Medically Prescribed Fitness' Could Be Key in Linking Healthcare and Exercise. With Brian Prendergast of MedFit Care. Ep 75.
Aug 02, 2022
How This Atlanta Gym Included People Over 50 and Recently Celebrated a Milestone Anniversary. Ep. 74
Jul 19, 2022
Why You Must Make Your Marketing Clear about the Importance of Fitness over 50.
Jul 12, 2022
'You Look Good for Your Age' and the 4 Types of Over-50 Fitness Consumer. Ep. 72
Jun 21, 2022
This Brooklyn Couple Is Helping Active Agers Find the Right Place to Retire. What They're Finding Might Surprise You. Ep. 71.
Jun 14, 2022
How an Online Learning Platform Helps Older Adults 'Get Set Up' in Fitness, Tech, Cooking and More. Ep. 70.
Jun 07, 2022
Why the Fitness Business Association Went All-Virtual for Conferences, and How Fitness Businesses Are Evolving. With Josh Leve
May 31, 2022
How to Help Active Agers Stay 'In Control at 50+' in Fitness, Finance and More, with Author Kerry Hannon.
May 24, 2022
Remember to Keep Workouts Fun for People Over 50 If You Want to Build Steady Habits.
May 17, 2022
What's Coming Soon In Fitness Technology and How Gyms Can Make the Most of It, with Natalia Karbasova of FitTech
Apr 19, 2022
How a Broadway Actor Conquered NYC Fitness with His Colorful Approach, and What Gym OwnersCan Learn from Him.
Apr 05, 2022
Preaching the Power of Content in Growing Your Gym, with Business Coach Chris Cooper
Mar 15, 2022
Virtual Reality Is Connecting older Adults with Each Other, Travel, Fitness and More, with Kyle Rand of Rendever
Mar 03, 2022
Money Tips from a Gym Owner and Financial Coach to Keep Your Fitness Business Fiscally Fit
Feb 15, 2022
7 Keys to Showing You Want People over 50 in Your Gym or Studio
Feb 08, 2022
Veteran Fitness Business Adviser Pat Rigsby on Coaching Gym Owners to Success
Jan 25, 2022
Building Healthy Habits for Sustained Weight Loss, with Amy Lang of Moxie Club
Jan 18, 2022
Don't Stop Now: 22 Tips for Promoting Your Fitness or Health Business in '22.
Jan 11, 2022
A Look Ahead at the New Year with Dr. Dan Ritchie of the Functional Aging Institute
Dec 30, 2021
No Joke! 'Laughter Yoga' Is Seriously Good for You. With Gerontologist Celeste Greene
Dec 21, 2021
Sportswriter Ray Glier Turns His Focus on Older Athletes with GeezerJock Newsletter
Dec 14, 2021
Robert Linkul on Training People over 50, Fighting Sarcopenia, and Closing His Gym Because of Covid.
Dec 07, 2021
Fitness Veteran Eric Tepper on How He's Building GenStrong Fitness to Serve the Over-50 Market.
Nov 30, 2021
After World Series Win, Washington Nationals Coach Tripp Keister Keeps Fitness A Priority At 51.
Nov 23, 2021
Healthy Cooking and Shopping Tips from Cookbook Author and Food Journalist Susan Puckett. Ep. 51.
Nov 16, 2021
Hit up churches, community colleges, other local resources to sell your fitness-over-50 offerings. With Julian Barnes of Boutique Fitness Solutions. Episode 50.
Nov 09, 2021
How to Build an Email List for your Over-50 Fitness Business, and Make the Most of It.
Oct 26, 2021
Focusing on People and Relationships Helps Midwestern Fitness Chain Orange Shoe Grow. Ep. 48
Oct 12, 2021
Cannabis, CBD Can Play a Powerful Role in Athletic Performance and Recovery after 50, with Don Moxley of Longevity Labs and Mendi.
Sep 28, 2021
Let's Talk about Menopause and How to Help Women Stay Fit, Well and Active. With Selene Yeager.
Sep 21, 2021
How to Improve Your Content Marketing and Tell Awesome Stories about Fitness over 50.
Sep 14, 2021
How You Can Help People over 50 Get Fit after They Face a Turning Point. With trainer, author and podcaster Christine Conti.
Sep 07, 2021
Would You Like an Audience of 2 Million People for Your Over-50 Fitness Business? Here's How One FitPro Did It.
Aug 24, 2021
Can ‘Nurse-Coaches’ Help Bridge the Gap Between Healthcare and Fitness after 50? With Nicole Vienneau
Aug 17, 2021
Financial Fitness and Physical Fitness over 50 Are A Lot Alike: With Financial Planner Murs Tariq
Aug 10, 2021
Built to Grow, Including Fitness over 50: Gym Owner and Entrepreneur Tim Lyons Knows the Power of Marketing
Aug 03, 2021
Exercise vs. Dementia, Alzheimer's: Bringing Brain Health and Physical Fitness Together, with Martin Pazzani and John Spence of Act!vate
Jul 20, 2021
How to Crush the Anti-‘Dad Bod’ Market for Men Who Want to be Fit over 50. With Mike Warren of Australia’s Ditch the Dad Bod.
Jul 13, 2021
Let's Talk about Time and Money in Selling Fitness to People over 50.
Jun 29, 2021
Gym Owners, Here's How to Use the Right Words and Images to Appeal to the Over-50 Fitness Market.
Jun 21, 2021
To Grow a Fit Over 50 Business, Focus on Client Engagement and Retention, with Sumit Seth of Naamly
Jun 15, 2021
First A Gym, Then A Podcast, and Now A Book -- Jim Adams Expands His “Masters in Fitness Business” Brand
Jun 08, 2021
Fit-Over-50 Professionals Share Lessons Learned from the Pandemic, and a Look at What’s Coming, with Dan Ritchie, Dr. Emily Splichal, Paul Holbrook and Dianne Bailey
May 25, 2021
Plant-Based Eating and Living on the Road, with Bruce and Mindy Mylrea of One Day to Wellness
May 18, 2021
Building Community, Helping People over 50 Stay Fit and Engaged, and What We Can Learn from Drag Queens, with Lawrence Biscontini
May 11, 2021
Tai Chi for Baby Boomers and Military Veterans, with Master Instructor David-Dorian Ross
May 04, 2021
Training People Over 50 for Mountain Biking, Hiking, Spartan Races and More, with TRX’s Renae McCloud
Apr 27, 2021
Make the News: Get Free Local Media Coverage for Your Over-50 Gym or Fitness Studio, and Other Tips for Your Post-Pandemic Marketing Plan
Apr 20, 2021
Creating Your Own Successful Fitness Brand, with Sue Hitzmann of the MELT Method
Apr 13, 2021
How to Get Gym Customers Back after the Covid-19 Pandemic, from Three People Who Are Doing It
Apr 06, 2021
What's Your EQ? Emotional Intelligence Can Grow Your Fitness Business, with Lindsay Vastola
Mar 30, 2021
We’re at a Unique Point in the Global Push for Fitness Over 50 -- with Colin Milner of the International Council on Active Aging
Mar 16, 2021
From Trainer to Chiropractor to Integrative Movement Specialist, Dr. Evan Osar Shares Tips for Growing Your Fitness over 50 Business
Mar 09, 2021
Does your fitness business have a crisis communications plan? Here's why and how to start, with communications expert Cindy Miller
Mar 02, 2021
The GYMS Act would give $30 billion in pandemic aid to the fitness industry. Here's how IHRSA, CrossFit want gyms to help get it passed.
Feb 23, 2021
15 Pro Hacks to Always Have Plenty of Content Ideas for Your Fitness, Wellbeing, Healthy Living Business
Feb 15, 2021
Fit Over 50: Vitamins, minerals, nutritional supplements with 1985 World Series champion Greg Pryor of Life Priority
Feb 02, 2021
What's Coming in 2021 for Fitness over 50: Returning to the Gym, Premium Service, and Providing Community -- with Rick Mayo of Alloy Personal Training
Jan 26, 2021
Connecting Fitness to Healthcare Could Change Fitness Over 50, with Dr. Sean Pastuch of Active Life
Jan 19, 2021
How Zeno Gym Entered the Home-Workout Arena with a Solid, Low-Tech Option
Jan 12, 2021
Legendary Weightlifting Champ Dan John at 63: Why Gyms Should Cater to the Fit-Over-50 Market
Jan 05, 2021
Turn Your Healthy Living Idea into an Online Business, with Keto Coaching Pioneer Kate Bay Jaramillo
Dec 22, 2020
Do You Hate Selling, Too? Then Fitbiz Coach & Author Ryan McKenzie Has Some Advice for You
Dec 15, 2020
Should Gyms Be Considered Essential Businesses? How Insurance-Backed ‘Prescription Fitness’ Can Help
Dec 08, 2020
Fitness over 50 Roundtable: Three Business Owners Share Secrets of Their Success During the Covid-19 Crisis
Dec 01, 2020
Fitness & Wellbeing Pros, Here's How to Not Suck at Writing Everyday Stuff
Nov 25, 2020
Weight Loss for Women over 50: How Amy Lang Closed Her Gym and Opened a Thriving Online Coaching Business
Nov 17, 2020
Gut Health and Biohacks for Better Holistic Health, with Wade Lightheart of BiOptimizers
Nov 10, 2020
Nutrition After 50: What to Eat as Needs and Interests Change with Nutritionist Angel Plannels
Nov 03, 2020
To Sell Fitness after 50, Focus on Improving Customers’ Lives, with Marketing Guru Jay Acunzo
Oct 27, 2020
Six Components of Wellness, and how to grow online businesses that sell high-ticket items and services to people over 50. With fitness entrepreneur Chandler Walker
Oct 20, 2020
Remote Coaching and What’s Coming Next for Fitness, with Eric Malzone, Level 5 Mentors & Future of Fitness
Oct 13, 2020
Growing a Fitness Studio for Women over 50, with Anthony Wilkins, Alloy Personal Training for Women
Oct 06, 2020
Buying Habits and Fears of People over 50, with Jeff Weiss, Age of Majority
Sep 29, 2020
Fitness over 50, with Dr. Dan Ritchie, Functional Aging Institute
Sep 17, 2020