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About Us

So what about us? Who are these crazy people? Telling you to get up off your 'cabooses' and start walking so you can feel great again? Even when you have achy parts, past surgeries and all that sorta stuff to deal with? Even when you're over 50? What do we know anyway?

Good questions!

Who We Are
Yoko & Geoff-Your Hosts
We are Yoko and Geoff. We walk (and live) in Western Canada (just north of Spokane, Washington). We're both grandparents in our mid 60's, each with two grandkids. Both retired from our day jobs.


More to the point, we've both had to deal with and overcome past surgeries, major injuries, being stuck with a cast, braces and crutches. (You can read all the gruesome details here). We know first hand all about these kinds of aches and pains. We also know how hard it can be to deal with them in later life. It's not fun! It darn well hurts!

We've done this largely through our passion for walking with great help from various health professionals along the way. It's just great to be able to walk outdoors. You feel good. It feels even better when you know what you've overcome so you can walk at all!

Along the way we've developed our passion for knowledge about feet, foot wear and fitness walking. Yoko has enjoyed helping people when she worked in a great shoe store. We also enjoyed helping many folks on our own online walking shoe store for a number of years. All valuable learning experience!

Why Do We Care?

Because! Because we want to share our experiences and knowledge with you in the hope of helping you walk and feel great again too! We want you to really enjoy the 50 Plus years of your life. We love helping people.

It just saddens us to see so many people way too old before their time. People who are missing out on the simple pleasures of walking and its many benefits. People who may not realize they can feel a lot better with a bit of walking.

People who walk in pain when there is no need for it. People who don't know they can walk again and move beyond surgery and injury problems. People who clearly have shoes that don't fit well and cause unnecessary grief for them. That's criminal!

Our Passion

50Plus Fitness Walking arose out of our passion for walking and a desire to share that passion with people like you. People over 50 who may have aches and pains and don't walk. People who deserve to fully enjoy life and feel great again. It's truly a labor of love. A work continually in progress.

Our desire is to provide you clear, accurate, high quality information in a simple, easy to understand way. Not a lot of technobabble or academic stuff. Big words have their place...just not on our website!

We scan literally thousands of websites to pull the best of the really good, relevant stuff together in one place for you. Stuff that's scattered all over the web. 'Good stuff' that works for folks our age. We blend it with our own experience and share it with you.

When we find really good stuff we don't have room for, we share links to those resources with you. You're most welcome to visit them to do more in depth research on your own.

From time to time we also recommend a few high quality people who actually sell some of the goods and services we refer to. We personally make contact with these people before we will ever recommend them. They must be of the highest quality for us to do so.

One thing we are not is knowledgeable on the important areas of diet, nutrition and weight loss. These are all important to any fitness program. You will find links to highly qualified folks wherever appropriate.

One other thing we are not is doctors, physiotherapists, personal trainers or health professionals. That is why you are directed to see them at key places throughout our site. We do however consult with some of these folks to ensure accuracy of our suggestions.

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Need To Get In Touch?

Feel free to contact us at:

YG Enterprises
2432 11 Avenue
Castlegar, British Columbia V1N 3A9
Canada

Phone: 1-250-365-5532
Fax: 1-250-365-5582
Email: plusfitn@50plus-fitness-walking.com




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