Heroes in Business - Malin Svensson, Fitness guru to Jane Fonda, Author WAKE UP Your Body + Mind After 50!

Episode Date: January 27, 2021

You can learn to use this one trick to enhance your body. Malin Svensson, Fitness guru to Jane Fonda, Author WAKE UP Your Body + Mind After 50! is interviewed by David Cogan founder of Eliances and host of the Eliances Heroes show broadcast on am and fm network channels, internet radio, and online syndication. www.eliances.com  

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the only place where entrepreneurs align. All right, time to wake up your body and your mind, especially we have many people who are after and older than 50. This is what you want to listen to. And even if you're not 50 yet, eventually, you're fortunate enough you will. So you're going to want to listen to and watch this now. Because we have with us Malin Svensson, Nordic body expert, fitness guru of Jane Fonda, and author. Are you ready for this? Here's the kicker. Wake up your body and push your mind after 50. You can reach her by going to nordicbody.com, or of course, we'll have it on our website at alliances.com, which you all know, E-L-I-A-N-C-E-S.com.

Malin, so what are some of the things that we're going to learn from your book? Well, it starts with actually what we just talked about, the mindset, because that is where our limiting beliefs lie. We were not waking up at 50 with this brain from the very beginning. We were not born with this brain from the very beginning. So we have conditioned it. And yes, it's easier to make changes of habits when we were younger, but it's never too late. So the mindset is the most important thing when we want to make changes in our habits. So Malin, how do we, as far as, you know, wake up and you've seen it, you know, people after 50 and that, and maybe it gets a little bit

harder to wake up or want to wake up and stuff. How do we do, how do we control or what should we be saying to our mind to get it going? Well, first of all, you should start paying attention to what you are telling yourself. And are those things negative or are they positive? If you have a tendency to tell yourself negative thoughts, then you want to get into neutral and then slowly move over to something more positive because the way you feed your body with positive things, you're going to feel so much better. How do we do that with everything that we're bombarded with in regards to the news? Everywhere we go, everything we go online, we see on TV, it's that constant, which

unfortunately isn't the best of news and rarely is it ever positive. How do we get away from that since we're just bombarded with it 24 hours? Yes, I hear you. And it's very easy. Turn it off. Try to just listen to things that are going to uplift you. I myself, I don't listen to the news that much anymore. I mean, I just listen to the facts,

the basic. If you listen into everything that's going on, you're just going to get so depressed. And the media is about making it very dramatic and pulling you in. So it's really tempting to stay there and listen to all these dramatic things that are happening around the world. So you have to turn it off and just go into your little bubble sometimes and get calmed down, meditate, set your mind up for success, and just start telling yourself that everything is okay. And I am going to do what I want to do with my life, regardless of what is happening around the world. I can take care of my health. I can go for a walk. So it's turning off all the things that you don't need to listen to. Now, you're a fitness guru to the stars, including Jane Fonda and many

others. How did you get involved within the industry and work with so many various celebrities? Reputation, I believe. Just over the years, I've been in this business for close to 30 years, and the last 29 years, I've focused on working on the 50-plus crowd, and things spread. People, they say, hey, this is a good person to work with. So one thing leads to another. And we all know that the best marketing tool is referrals. And when Jane came up to me and asked me, can you work me out? I was like, well, let me check my schedule here.

And of course, I said yes. And I got back to her right away. But it was such an honor. And I felt afterwards that it's almost like Dalai Lama hiring a spiritual teacher. I was so blown away. And I'm so honored to be her personal trainer. What do you see as far as some that are perhaps, you know, younger than 50 really to get into that habit of being able to carry it into adult life and that and carry it on forever that they could do now? And a second part of that, too, is what, because we have many parents that are listening, too, that may be over the age of 50. What could they do to instill the right habits now with their children?

I love that question. It is so important that as parents, that you are a role model to your kids. What do you want your kids to be, to be like as they're growing up? And of course, we all want them to be healthy. Well, if they don't see you being healthy, they're probably not going to be healthy unless they have other role models that are very often showing up in

their lives. So it's very important that you yourself have a big, you answer the big why you need to take care of yourself. And you ask those quality questions to go really deep. And one way could be, I want my kids to have a good role model. So I'm going to be healthy. So when you shop for things, make sure that you have healthy things at home and only unhealthy things you need to go and pick up at a store, but just have healthy stuff around the house. So when you do get hungry, that you just grab that healthy snack instead of something unhealthy. Because we've all done that. We're super hungry and we just grab anything that is around and especially something that is sugary.

and also because when I work out clients that are maybe in their 60s or 70s, so very often I hear, I wish I had started doing this earlier. So that was one of the reasons I wanted to write this book because I have close to 30 years experience of working with the 50 plus. So I know what works and what doesn't work to age with confidence. So I wanted to get the message out there to anyone who is younger or older that it's never too late. And if especially you're younger, treat your body with respect. Do not thrash it and do crazy stuff that is going to be having bad consequences as you get older. Now, as we're younger, we think that everything is okay.

It's not until we get up a little bit in our 40s that things are catching up. For example, I was one of Sweden's top five runners 100 years ago. And in my late teens, I had a really bad ankle injury. And that one caught up with me when I turned somewhere early 40s. It was so bad that I could not sleep at night. And thank God that when we ask for something, the universe usually responds.

So I was introduced, luckily, to Trigger Release and applying that for two weeks after that, I was able to sleep at night without any ankle problems. So I built my system on that because usually when you go through something yourself and you have success with it, you want to share it. And that's what I'm doing. So everything is in my book, reducing aches and pains as you age, which is a big factor that we want to stay away from as we're aging. We're getting some of the questions, for example, is it better to do exercise and do this in the morning or in the evening or in the middle of the day? How do we know what the best timing is? Everyone has their own rhythm

in their body. Some people are morning people, some people are evening people. So you really have to figure out when is the best time for you. For me, myself, I always enjoy the morning the most because then I know that I don't have any excuses as the day goes along to not work out. So I always try to do it first thing in the morning. Now, some people, they are just having a really hard time doing it in the morning. They're more like afternoon, maybe even evening. So there's no good or better or worse time to work out. The main thing is that you schedule it and you keep the workouts,

like make an appointment with yourself and keep the appointment. Well, we've got time for one more question. I think this is important too, because you mentioned it during the interview and it's that word we try to avoid. And what's the best way to do it is the word sugar because sugar is in everything and and it just what do we do it's very difficult but i would start reading the labels on anything that you buy and just know that you don't want to have i for, for myself, I make sure that if I buy a protein bar, for example, now you think that it's a healthy protein bar and then you look at it and it's like 30 grams sugar.

You really want to stay away and try and keep it down to like three to five grams of sugar. And the same thing with juices. People, they love drinking those healthy juices. Well, they're not that healthy because there's tons of sugar in it. And sugar, as we know, increases inflammation, inflammation in our bodies, disease and pain. So you really want to decrease that sugar intake and just be aware by reading labels and educate yourself because you may think, oh, a healthy juice, that is so good for me. And then you have hundreds of grams of sugar in your body, whether it's from fruit or refined sugar.

It doesn't really matter. It's sugar, and it's going to increase inflammation in the body. Excellent advice. Well, thank you, too, to Alliance's member, Juliet Clark, for nominating you to be on the show. Julia can be reached at super brand publishing.com. Malin, you assist people with staying fit and young. That's a hero.

You are the guru to the stars and author of the book. Wake up your body and mind after 50. Make sure you go to normicbody.com. Also on Amazon. That's right. And if you're watching sure you go to normicbody.com, also on Amazon. That's right. And if you're watching, you can see, wake up. That's right. This has been David Kogan with the Alliance of Heroes

show.