EP434: Bruce Fertman - Walking For Wellness: Your Path To Great Health

Michael Palmer: It can be so short, you know, because the research validates 12-minute walks. It's like you get so many health benefits in a 12-minute walk, but twice as many of the benefits if you know how to walk well. You're listening to The Successful Bookkeeper with your host, Michael Palmer. Listen each week as inspiring guests share their secrets of success to help you increase your confidence, work smarter, and build a business you love. This episode of The Successful Bookkeeper is brought to you by purebookkeeping.com, the proven system to grow your bookkeeping business. Welcome back to The Successful Bookkeeper Podcast. I'm your host, Michael Palmer. Today's show is going to be a memorable one. Our guest is the co-author of Walking Well: A New Approach for Comfort, Vitality, and Inspiration in Every Step. Bruce Furtman, welcome to the show. Thank you very much, Michael. It's great to have you, Bruce. And I'd love to know a little bit about— and I know our listener would love to know a little bit about you and your career journey leading up to what you're doing today.

Bruce Fertman interview (Sep 3): Okay, well, I started teaching movement when I was 12, and I'm 73, so it's been a while. I started out as, uh, well, I started teaching swimming and diving at that age and also gymnastics. So I did that. I was on the Penn State gymnastics team, which was the best gymnastics team in the country at that time. And I did that till I was about 20. And then I started studying martial arts, tai chi and aikido, modern dance, contact improvisation, just a lot of movement work. And I also started studying the Alexander Technique at that time. And a great deal of my career, about 40 years, was spent training people to be Alexander teachers, Alexander Technique teachers. And then I went on to study Argentine tango and kudos and archery and Japanese tea ceremony. So my, my life has just been full of great teachers who were great understanders of human movement, both, uh, gross motor movement and fine motor movement. And that's what I know about. And the reason why I've ended up with walking as a major theme at this point is because it's the way I can get to most people. Walking is our common denominator in terms of movement. Almost all of us walk.. And it's a really great place to begin to teach people about movement. So that's why I'm doing that now. I'm a rather spry 73-year-old and not all my contemporaries are. And so this is, can be my way of helping, my way