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Rogue Valley Exercise Expert Focuses On Older People

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The images chosen by gyms and fitness centers to advertise for new customers tend to show young and slender people who look like they live at the gym.  Any gray hairs in there? 

Probably not, but we need exercise to maintain fitness as we age, and the Rogue Valley's Andy Baxter focuses his fitness business on people 50 and older. 

Baxter sees himself as standing in opposition to the giant "fitness industry," and his feelings led to a small book, The Exercise Prescription.  The author visits the studio, and we have gym shorts at the ready.  
 

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Geoffrey Riley is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism and has hosted the Jefferson Exchange on JPR since 2009. He's been a broadcaster in the Rogue Valley for more than 35 years, working in both television and radio.