My background

I was always passionate about sports. In my youth I was an olympic weightlifter on national level. After the age of twenty well into my thirties I shifted to recreational mostly endurance based sports like swim, bike and run and participated in small local runs and races. With increasing age, fading performance and growing reponsibities my sportive interests slowly faded away. It then took a severe long-term sickness in my fourties to kick my butt and make me rethink my approach on physical health and fitness. And what started with some basic recovery work pushed me into my ‘bonus level of life’. Today I see sports and nutrition as my key for being a reliable family member and strong at work.

I am very thankful to the people who supported me through my sick times and maybe these pages can become a way of giving back to other people.

I write on my Fit4Fifty pages about my regained passion for improving my performance levels despite the odds of age, genetics, time constraints and limited talent. Fitness is for me the balance of strength, endurance, flexibility and stability not the individual maximum. Injury prevention, metabolic and organic health are key for sustainable development and longterm performance.

On my way of gradually increasing my limits and removing obstacle after obstacle I learned many lessons in various fields that I like to summarize and share. Further there seems to be an interesting transfer of methods used for elite athletes towards the needs of ambitious amateurs and best agers - which really caught my interest. I love to test and implement these methods. As a data nerd I am wide open for all kinds of statistics and measurements, performance and laboratory tests - also to sort out what works and what doesn’t.

With a little bit of luck this should pay into my ultimate goal: I want to be the fit(test) grandpa at the playground and want to pass on my passion for sports to one more generation - our daughters are already infected :-)

And of course, if you like what you read and can use it - this would make me extremely happy too!