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Corporations / Entrepeneurs / Venture Capitalists of all ages!!! - I'm old and exploitable - let's improve the world and make a buck.
  • Commercials - Come on, I gotta be a natural for a Nike Ad.
  • Music Vides - Artists - what could be more campy?
  • Fitness Centers - I'm not a certified trainer but I will be - add a trainer older people will be comfortable with that also has a unique talent. Create a JumpRock program.
  • Physical Therapists - Let's develop a JumpRock program that's fun and therapeutic.
  • Doctors - Verify my results, let's co-author a book
  • Publishers - I have a book proposal in the works, contact me.
  • Charities and Schools - Where and when? Free depending on circumstances.
  • Laundromat Grand Openings - sigh
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I believe I offer a unique package: age, fitness, and a slothful background. I have a unique motivational approach, 'Energy Focused Exercise' and a history to support it. I have literally hundreds of hours of video going back to about 2002. I can demonstrate stamina and agility unusual for someone my age with a sedentary lifestyle and background. I can demonstrate in detail that JumpRock and Heavy Hula Hands can constitute a full body workout. If you look at the videos on YouTube, you can tell I'm in better shape and jump rope better now than in February, just four months ago.

My 'hooks' of course are my age and JumpRock, but the other important difference is I have no background in the fitness industry. If fitness is your 'thing', you don't really understand people for whom exercise is a drag that sooner or later defeats their good intentions. But that's my background exactly, the only difference being a few flukes in my life experiences, starting with a bizzare and totally mystifying incident of what I now realize was euphoria in army basic training that put me on a course to connecting quality of life, whether you're sedentary or not, to energy, and energy to exercise.

Even then, I still hated exercise so much I couldn't do it through self-discipline; then I lowered the amount of physical effort required to qualify as a workout and raised the standard on frequency. Once I did that, I got it all, though I had no idea of that at the time. Going in, I was ok with just being lethargic in the evenings except it made studying tedious; so I only planned to keep up the exercise routine as long as computer school lasted. But within a few weeks I wasn't content with lethargy anymore because I had become accustomed to feeling 'good' instead of just 'ok'. That's lasted for 30 years as of October 2008 and it's changed my life entirely, all for the better. So, the only life experience you need to share with me is the transition from mechanically fulfilling a simple commitment everyday to really experiencing the difference between before and after often enough and consistently enough to really internalize the benefit.

I'd like to just keep doing what I'm doing and gradually build credibility until I get noticed by someone who can really help me make a difference but we have to put more time into hustling up business for our day jobs as web programmer and designer. When I first realized how much fun jumping music to could be if you just kept it up until you got fairly good at it I was absolutely positive that it would just take off when people saw that a 55 year old man (now 61) could do it and obviously have fun at it. It seems I was overly optimistic. The schedule has already slipped on my ticker-tape parade.

It sounds corny to say this is my destiny, and I generally think people make their own. But it's hard to think otherwise given my history of indolence by preference and the way I stumbled across the connection between exercise and energy and how to exploit it and then started jumping rope at age 55.

Now I'm in the best shape of life, no thanks to excellence on my part. So I'm not boastful about my fitness, but grateful and anxious to share my good fortune with as many people as I can. I never dreamed daily "exercise" would ever be fun for me, that I could jump rope this well with no end to the creative possiblities in sight, or that I would be in this kind of shape at my age. If I couldn't have dreamed it, then there have to be millions of people who could accomplish the same thing but just don't realize the possibilities: most importantly, fitness and health in the long run, but best of all on a day to day basis, the fun and energy.
Any advice given reflects the experiences of myself and acquaintances over the last 30 years to the best of my recollection and under no circumstances constitutes medical or professional advice. There is no guarantee of accuracy, completeness, or the approriateness of any information or advice on this site or any site linked to.