Huntsman World Senior Games Active Life
The Active Life presented by the Huntsman World Senior Games is a weekly 25 minute podcast designed to help listeners get the most out of their life. We tackle all kinds of health and wellness topics including the value of competition as part of overall active aging.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 25 minutes
- Episodes
- 422
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2025
#497 Gliding Across the Soccer Field, Water, and Pavement - Featuring Lara Ray
Lara Ray excelled in track, cross country, and soccer during her youth, ultimately thriving as a fullback in the Olympic Development Program. While on a soccer scholarship at the Univer…
#496 Circuit Training and the Deadly Dozen - Featuring Jason Curtis
Jason Curtis is a highly experienced strength and conditioning coach and bestselling author who has published over a dozen books on the development of health, fitness and sports perform…
#495 Table Tennis and NeuroPong - Featuring Sanjoy Bhattacharya
Sanjoy Bhattacharya was born in India and grew up in the Chicago area, finishing all of his education there as an MBA, CPA (Certified Public Accountant) and CFP (Certified Financial Pla…
#494 Climbing and Biking Mountains - Featuring Dr. Gordon Larsen
Dr. Gordon Larsen, M.D., FACEP is an emergency medicine specialist at St. George Regional Hospital and has over 32 years of experience in the medical field. He graduated from University…
#493 Conquering the Gaucho Derby - Featuring Scott Nielsen
Scott Nielsen is a businessman by day and an equestrian by night. He is currently a project manager and developer at the Black Desert Resort in Ivins, UT and holds an MBA from Universit…
#492 One Man’s Health Journey, A Step at a Time - Featuring John Challis
After many years in a primarily sedentary lifestyle, John Challis’s health journey began more than two decades ago at the invitation of some friends to go workout early mornings at the …
#491 Grandma Pole Vaults in Her She Shed - Featuring Kay Glynn
Kay Glynn is a 70-year-old grandmother of 8 who currently resides in Missouri. She began dancing and acrobatics at the age of 4, and this led to owning her own dance and acrobatics stud…
#490 I Would Walk 4000 Miles and I Would Walk 500 More - Featuring Joan Young
Joan Young wrote her first story about the outdoors at the age of 7, titled “The Adventures of Skippy the Field Mouse.” Joan’s life has always revolved around the outdoors from walking …
#489 Concussions, Life Balance Square - Featuring Dr. Joseph Maroon
Dr. Joseph C. Maroon is a Clinical Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, longtime team neurosurgeon to the Pittsburgh Steelers, and neurosurgical con…
#488 Distance Running After Collapsed Lungs - Featuring Nate Marshall
Today’s guest is Nate Marshall, a K-12 charter school executive director in Northern Utah. Nate grew up playing a variety of sports, but his favorite was golf. He also became an avid mo…
#487 Thriving After a Widowmaker Heart Attack - Featuring Travis Marchant
Our guest this week is 49-year-old Travis Marchant, a hematology/oncology pharmacist at Intermountain Health. Like many American young men, Travis played basketball and football during …
#486 Marathons with a Pacemaker - Featuring Idonna Clarke
As a proud member of the St. George Marathon Legacy Club, 52-year-old Idonna Clarke, mother of six children and grandmother of 5, is shooting for her 24th marathon later this year. Idon…
#485 Why Use an Orthopedic Urgent Care? - Featuring Dr. Warren Butterfield
Dr. Warren Butterfield has been in practice as an orthopedic trauma surgeon since 2007. He came to St. George in 2014 to assist in the transition of then Dixie Regional Medical Center t…
#484 The Joy of Running - Featuring Sandra Checketts
Sandra Checketts, widowed mother of 5 and grandmother of 10, has always enjoyed running, including as a cross country and track competitor at Utah State University. She is full or part …
#483 Improving VO2 Max and Bone Health - Featuring Dr. Vonda Wright
Dr. Vonda Wright is an internationally-recognized practicing double-boarded orthopaedic sports surgeon, author, speaker, researcher, and innovator whose work stands in the intersection …
#482 Stay Healthy for Those We Love - Featuring Shelley Gish
Shelley Sybil Gish has spent most of her life learning about the benefits of holistic healing, with fifty-plus years of experience in behavioral genetics, thirty-one years in alternativ…
#481 Cycling and Triathlon - Featuring Jason Ranoa
Jason and Heather Ranoa are the Cycling and Triathlon directors for the Huntsman World Senior Games. We are fortunate enough to have had them for the past 3 years. Jason and Heather coa…
#480 Don't Let the Old Man In - Featuring Nick Cipollino
Nick Cipollino came from humble beginnings and knows the value of hard work. Nick took up sporting clay shooting in 1988 following a knee injury. He was introduced to the Huntsman World…
#479 Just Keep Swimming - Featuring Betty Brussel
Ninety-nine-year-old Dutch-Canadian Betty Brussel is happiest when she is swimming. Setting world records, which she did as recently as a week ago, is just icing on the cake. Betty enjo…
#478 Let's Talk About Dementia - Featuring Karen Straw
Karen Straw was born in Massachusetts and considers herself geographically challenged, having lived in Colorado, Arizona, Texas, Michigan, Wisconsin, the Marshall Islands in the South P…