Pumping "Feathers" Into Your Seventies and Eighties

The book's title "Pumping 'Feathers' Into Your Seventies and Eighties" is a metaphorical and playful way of offering you information on how to maintain good health, vitality, and energy well into your seventies and eighties, typically considered advanced stages of life. The use of the word "feathers" in quotation marks is my way of suggesting that it's not meant to be taken literally but symbolically or metaphorically. In this context, "feathers" represents qualities associated with lightness, energy, and vitality. Pumping feathers, rather than pumping iron, metaphorically means maintaining or enhancing these qualities in your life as you age. The aim of my book, therefore, is to provide guidance on how to stay physically and mentally active, healthy, and vibrant as you and I get older, as if we are "pumping feathers" into our later years. In authoring this short book, I wanted to offer some perspective and some useful information to those of you who are asking themselves: "Should I get out of the house and into the outside world where things like gyms, swimming pools, hiking trails, even mountains exist, waiting for me to engage with them in order to improve my sense of well-being, physically, mentally, perhaps even spiritually?" And it is my intention to offer you, readers of all ages and physical condition, some perspective and even some incentive to get out there and engage with your physical side again. You might be surprised at the benefits that await you. You might even continue with your physically active life right up into your 80s and beyond. You might even find yourself doing more than just "pumping feathers."