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Get Outside: The Fitness You Can't Get in a Gym—Be Healthier, Recharge Your Brain, Prevent Burnout, Find More Joy, and Maybe Live to be 100
Discover the SECRETS OF AGING WELL
Join the ranks of active agers. Get the kind of fitness you cannot find in a gym. The kind of fitness that builds a stronger body, a sharper brain and improves every part of your life.
Fitness executive and mountaineer Martin Pazzani has taken 100,000,000 uphill steps on seven continents over fifty years. On this journey, he founded a think tank based on the latest findings in exercise, movement, and neuroscience and discovered that walking up hills – hiking – might just be the Fountain of Youth and the pathway to a much longer, happier, and healthier life.
Looking for a life-changing way to stay fit, healthy, and active well into your 80s, 90s, and beyond?
Want to take charge of the way you age while enjoying a passion that energizes your body, brain, and spirit?
Inside Secrets of Aging Well: Get Outside, you’ll discover ways to:
Use fitness as medicine to experience real preventive healthcare
Make your brain more resistant to cognitive decline and depression
Get out of the city to reduce stress and find a better mindfulness
Take the first steps toward a longer life and a longer health span
Build a stronger heart, more powerful lungs, springy-strong legs, a sharper brain, and a more resistant immune system.
Join the ranks of active agers. Get the kind of fitness you cannot find in a gym. The kind of fitness that builds a stronger body, a sharper brain and improves every part of your life.
Fitness executive and mountaineer Martin Pazzani has taken 100,000,000 uphill steps on seven continents over fifty years. On this journey, he founded a think tank based on the latest findings in exercise, movement, and neuroscience and discovered that walking up hills – hiking – might just be the Fountain of Youth and the pathway to a much longer, happier, and healthier life.
Looking for a life-changing way to stay fit, healthy, and active well into your 80s, 90s, and beyond?
Want to take charge of the way you age while enjoying a passion that energizes your body, brain, and spirit?
Inside Secrets of Aging Well: Get Outside, you’ll discover ways to:
Use fitness as medicine to experience real preventive healthcare
Make your brain more resistant to cognitive decline and depression
Get out of the city to reduce stress and find a better mindfulness
Take the first steps toward a longer life and a longer health span
Build a stronger heart, more powerful lungs, springy-strong legs, a sharper brain, and a more resistant immune system.
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213 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 15, 2020
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About the author
Martin Pazzani
2 books14 followersMartin Pazzani is a fitness guru, a globe-trotting corporate exec, an entrepreneur, a dynamic speaker, and an avid hiker, trekker, and mountaineer.
He has taken 100,000,000 uphill steps, across seven continents, over 50 years.
Throughout his long business career guiding some of the world's biggest brands, he’s worn many hats, from fast food burger flipper to CEO. Over an equally long period of time, he’s pursued peaks from Antarctica to Nepal and across Europe, Africa, and North and South America, and amassed unique, broad perspective, and insights that few possess.
His insights on longevity, healthcare, brain health, stress reduction, fitness, and hiking are what is in his book, Secrets of Aging Well: Get Outside.
Martin has given seminars, talks, and keynote speeches to thousands of Fortune 1000 executives, colleagues, and clients at corporate headquarters, retreats, at venues as varied as the Cannes Lions Ad Festival, The TED Conference in Monterrey, California, the Dubai Lynx Show, The Copacabana Palace in Rio de Janeiro, and New York’s Waldorf Astoria Hotel, and for companies as varied as American Express, American Distilling Institute, Amtrak, BlueCrossBlueShield, Buick, Foote, Cone & Belding, Functional Aging Institute, Kraft, SC Johnson, US Postal Service, Westfield, and many more.
His talks can teach, motivate, and inspire with a combination of gravitas, expertise, and joy.
He has taken 100,000,000 uphill steps, across seven continents, over 50 years.
Throughout his long business career guiding some of the world's biggest brands, he’s worn many hats, from fast food burger flipper to CEO. Over an equally long period of time, he’s pursued peaks from Antarctica to Nepal and across Europe, Africa, and North and South America, and amassed unique, broad perspective, and insights that few possess.
His insights on longevity, healthcare, brain health, stress reduction, fitness, and hiking are what is in his book, Secrets of Aging Well: Get Outside.
Martin has given seminars, talks, and keynote speeches to thousands of Fortune 1000 executives, colleagues, and clients at corporate headquarters, retreats, at venues as varied as the Cannes Lions Ad Festival, The TED Conference in Monterrey, California, the Dubai Lynx Show, The Copacabana Palace in Rio de Janeiro, and New York’s Waldorf Astoria Hotel, and for companies as varied as American Express, American Distilling Institute, Amtrak, BlueCrossBlueShield, Buick, Foote, Cone & Belding, Functional Aging Institute, Kraft, SC Johnson, US Postal Service, Westfield, and many more.
His talks can teach, motivate, and inspire with a combination of gravitas, expertise, and joy.
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December 14, 2024
As an avid hiker for more than 50 years, I didn’t expect many revelations in this book. However, the author has provided many insights into the specific benefits of hiking; truly interesting. I expect that this book has reinforced my past activities and will motivate me to continue being active. I hope that many readers will be inspired to venture outside and do some hiking at whatever difficulty level is appropriate for them. Great book!
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September 24, 2022This book was best when it talked about personal experiences. A helpful editor could have encouraged flushing out those anecdotes more--I wanted to hear about the Matterhorn, and other hikes not just the takeaway the author had from them, but more details about what these adventures were like. I liked the story about climbing with his son, but would have liked more about his family hiking (and how it impacts his family that he has been gone on hiking trips as well as work trips).
Pazzani switched up heart rate variability and heart rate reserve (he meant the latter, by description, but called it by the former).
Pazzani switched up heart rate variability and heart rate reserve (he meant the latter, by description, but called it by the former).
April 21, 2025
Aging well through hiking
This book gives insights into a unique way to fight aging. That is to get outside and hike. It explains the benefits of hiking. It explains the training you need to do. It gives you guidelines and recommendations. But basically, it tells you that if you want to live longer, go hike a mountain.
This book gives insights into a unique way to fight aging. That is to get outside and hike. It explains the benefits of hiking. It explains the training you need to do. It gives you guidelines and recommendations. But basically, it tells you that if you want to live longer, go hike a mountain.
April 8, 2025
Mostly about benefits of hiking. Good overview of the benefits of fitness on aging!
June 19, 2020
Makes me want to head outside!
As 75-year-old who has spent my life in the outdoors every chance I got, I honestly didn't expect to learn anything new from this book. I thought it would be a fun read that would tell me what I already knew. But instead, I found a really interesting blend of science, anecdotal and fascinating stories, philosophy and psychology all rolled together - plus some beautiful photos! Pazzani knows what he's talking about and uses the latest research to support his call to get outside. I have always known how much better I feel after a tough hike or a climb, but now I also know why in very understandable terms. I like the fact that the author not only writes about the tremendous value of walking or hiking outdoors, but also devotes chapters to strategizing how best to begin this if one has never done it before. He makes it attainable, and lays out for the reader who is a novice or who is an expert. The information is relevant and interesting for all levels and all ages. It is especially critical now, as people are living longer and yet being in worse shape than ever. Pazzani's passion for his subject matter is very clear, but it never becomes preachy or judgmental. At times the book is repetitious, But I did not find that to be a distraction. I thoroughly enjoyed his descriptions of his own experiences in the mountains, and could relate very directly to them. I found the book to be motivating and made me extra thankful to already have discovered the wisdom of getting outside. Even though I approached the book as a believer, I am even more excited now to keep hiking and immersing myself and the experience. If this book accomplishes getting anyone off the couch then it absolutely is a must read!
As 75-year-old who has spent my life in the outdoors every chance I got, I honestly didn't expect to learn anything new from this book. I thought it would be a fun read that would tell me what I already knew. But instead, I found a really interesting blend of science, anecdotal and fascinating stories, philosophy and psychology all rolled together - plus some beautiful photos! Pazzani knows what he's talking about and uses the latest research to support his call to get outside. I have always known how much better I feel after a tough hike or a climb, but now I also know why in very understandable terms. I like the fact that the author not only writes about the tremendous value of walking or hiking outdoors, but also devotes chapters to strategizing how best to begin this if one has never done it before. He makes it attainable, and lays out for the reader who is a novice or who is an expert. The information is relevant and interesting for all levels and all ages. It is especially critical now, as people are living longer and yet being in worse shape than ever. Pazzani's passion for his subject matter is very clear, but it never becomes preachy or judgmental. At times the book is repetitious, But I did not find that to be a distraction. I thoroughly enjoyed his descriptions of his own experiences in the mountains, and could relate very directly to them. I found the book to be motivating and made me extra thankful to already have discovered the wisdom of getting outside. Even though I approached the book as a believer, I am even more excited now to keep hiking and immersing myself and the experience. If this book accomplishes getting anyone off the couch then it absolutely is a must read!
May 31, 2023
Martin has provided a comprehensive and eminently readable call for us all to “get up and get moving”. Part autobiographical, his experiences, successes and set-backs provide the background for his passionate arguments about the benefits of physical activity and more importantly, of getting outdoors to stimulate both body and mind.
He has brought together many thoughts and ideas on hiking, walking and life in general that I hope will inspire many people to make a start, or to continue the journey in the outdoors. More importantly, I hope it encourages those of us who are moving into the later years to see exercise as integral to our daily lives. Acceptance that we are ageing is a good thing, accelerating the negatives through capitulation is not!
He has brought together many thoughts and ideas on hiking, walking and life in general that I hope will inspire many people to make a start, or to continue the journey in the outdoors. More importantly, I hope it encourages those of us who are moving into the later years to see exercise as integral to our daily lives. Acceptance that we are ageing is a good thing, accelerating the negatives through capitulation is not!
June 18, 2020
Love this book!
Love this book, I wish it had been written 20 years ago. This book is like the bible for fitness and good health for any age. Martin has put into words things I have been thinking for years. So many people are heading for poor health and they have no clue until it arrives. I hope people get to read this book and get inspired to get off the couch and get outside! A sincere thank you to Martin!
Love this book, I wish it had been written 20 years ago. This book is like the bible for fitness and good health for any age. Martin has put into words things I have been thinking for years. So many people are heading for poor health and they have no clue until it arrives. I hope people get to read this book and get inspired to get off the couch and get outside! A sincere thank you to Martin!
June 18, 2020
Inspiring to any level of fitness
As a practicing psychologist, I am always on the lookout for a helpful book to recommend. What I really liked about this book was the engaging mix of personal story with its ups and downs😊 with current research and ideas about brain health.
As a practicing psychologist, I am always on the lookout for a helpful book to recommend. What I really liked about this book was the engaging mix of personal story with its ups and downs😊 with current research and ideas about brain health.
April 7, 2021
I've loved being outside and hiking most of my life of 76-years but this book explains why I love it and the science behind why it's so good for your body-brain, mind and Soul! Highly recommend this book to anyone who seeks self improvement.
December 29, 2021
This book changed how I feel about aging! I’m actually an avid hiker and I know a few years back, before I started hiking, I was tired and felt old… now I feel renewed and alive again!
Get out of those recliners , people!!
Get out of those recliners , people!!
July 31, 2021
Can’t argue with the enthusiastic, optimistic, and encouraging advice in this short, helpful book! Prompted me to buy some hiking poles and get started with some hikes in Shenandoah National Park.
May 30, 2023
An inspirational read for those who want to get into hiking and haven't, for one reason or another. Pazzani offers sound advice for how to start - and continue - hiking.
November 20, 2024
This would be a 4.25 or possible 4.5 rating, if Goodreads allowed such.
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