Your Ageless Athlete:: Training for Life

Charlie Matthews is a baby boomer who knows first-hand the struggles to change and adopt a healthier life and positive outlook. He was a middle-aged, despairing, overweight attorney who smoked a pack of cigarettes in a day. He had never had any athletic ability or desire, and he was able to transform to an Ironman triathlon finisher at age fifty-four. When he was a young child, he had asthma, which prevented him from doing anything athletic due to shortness of breath. While he outgrew the asthma, he went through his teens, twenties, thirties, and half his forties without doing anything athletic to speak of. He had no athletic passions or any other real passions for that matter. In a word, he was miserable most of the time. Then he found his Ageless Athlete, and everything changed. Beginning with small steps of athletic activity, his athletic passion grew, first for running and then for triathlons. This passion then carried over into other aspects of his life, and today he can happily say he has a passion for life. Personal information: —Place of birth: White Plains, New York —Current residence: Lantana, Florida Education: —Archbishop Stepinac High School, White Plains, New York —Fordham University, Bronx, New York (BA degree, magna cum laude) —Columbia Law School, New York, New York (JD degree, law review editor) —Southern Connecticut State University (graduate courses in exercise physiology) Experience: —Two personal training certifications in health —Club owner / operator for two years —Television appearances on health and fitness