A few weeks ago we relocated and as soon as we got situated in our new place, we hunted down a used Total Gym 1700. I had made a commitment to start working out with a Total Gym again after reading about John Carleo’s accomplishments as a competitive weight lifter – at age 60…

The guy’s too much…

Imagine lifting 1003 pounds – at age 60 – six times his body weight. And only using the Total Gym for training 6-8 minutes a day, 6 days a week. Wow.

By the way Chuck Norris – of Total Gym Fame – Walker Texas Ranger, turned 68 this week. I remember him as a tournament fighter in the 70’s – 6 time world champ in Karate in his weight class. He loves the Total Gym and he looks better than any 59 year old I know personally.

Except maybe for a Chinese Gung fu master I know.

Anyway, we have been getting back into a routine with the Total Gym about 10-15 minutes at a time. What a great machine.

I’ve been focused on my upper body because it needs attention. A few years back, I broke my wrist after falling from a single story roof, and fracturing it in seven places. Needless to say that took some recuperating at 50+ – not to mention my bruised male ego.

The Total Gym is by far the most effective single machine I have ever used. Sometimes it’s a hassle to change it around from exercise to exercise. But overall, I think the results are amazing.

There is already a noticeable difference in my upper body physique. And the strength is coming back into my wrist and the tricep area remarkably fast. Considering the severity of the injury, I am very pleased.

This magnitude of my upper body recovery is compounded by a separated right clavicle that happened in July 2005 .

Kind of creaky all around.

But I can tell you straight up, that the Total Gym is getting the job done and I am really impressed with this machine.

Try one if you have a friend who has one is their house.

John Carleo says that he believes every household in America should have a Total Gym and his Total Gym instruction videos. I agree.

Only I would add one other thing to that list – a Vitamix blender.

Healthy Wealthy Boomer loves the Total Gym, you will too. Check one out if you haven’t done so already, and give us your feedback. I’m sure you’ll agree. Anybody can handle 6-8 minutes a day.

TOTAL GYM TIP: Hey, fellow healthy wealthy baby boomer, if you do hunt down a used Total Gym, make sure it has all the parts and attachments…

Semiologic Pro is a turbo charged version of Wordpress and we recently converted to Semio for our blogs. We really hadn’t planned on doing this but we liked the first install so much, we changed them all over. It’s a cool system.

We found out about Semiologic from our friend Sherman Hu – an SEO and internet marketing expert and an emerging video-blog master – he’s sharp, kind and savvy. Sherman runs Sherman Live and Wordpress Tutorials. He is also a faculty member for Stomper Net and uses Semiologic Pro himself. Thanks for the tip Sherman.

Semiologic is a versatile and powerful blog platform that really makes starting an online business a piece of cake. It’s search engine friendly and enhances your internet marketing efforts without having to know HTML or PhP. This lets you focus on creating good content instead of trying to figure out the latest technology before you can use it.

The more familiar I become with the capacity and the flexibility of this system, the better I like it. Although Wordpress was created as a blog platform, it seems to be evolving into an effective platform for e-commerce as well because it is so easy to use.  And cool new PhP widgets are popping up al the time. As the "blog platform" and traditional website gradually merge into each other, I’m seriously considering using this as a stand alone platform for future websites.

You can learn Wordpress and Semiologic Pro fast and it helps you create a sense of order and systemization that makes your effort more focused and organized.  

There are tons of features built in and it takes a while to figure out how things work. But as you learn, it becomes clear that Denis De Bernardy has put a lot of thought and technology into Semio behind the scenes. It really is an elegant system, elegant in the sense of a ‘quiet power combined with finesse and the beauty of simplicity’.

Even if you aren’t interested in using your blog to market, this program will help you get better search engine rankings so more people can find your blog to read it.

Drawbacks:

1. The skins (templates that come with it the program) are kind of ‘plain Jane’ design – but they are very functional. Denis De Bernardy (the creator of Semio) says he is going to start designing new skins pretty soon. In the meantime you can have your designer come up with custom skin that integrates in to the Semio system.
2. It takes a while to become fluent in all the Semio language and the many features and options built into this. It’s not counter intuitive, but it takes practice until you hit the "ah-hah" moments when it seems like it all makes sense at once. It’s like any powerful tool, it takes time to learn to use it effectively.
   

Even if you choose a different platform for your main website – or e-commerce store – get this system for you blog. You can use it for multiple domains of your own for the same money.  It’s a very good value for the horsepower. 

Does Semiologic really get results? Bernardy has a PR 7 on his main page and here’s a quote from a comment on his website:

It took me 3 months to take this web site’s front page from null to PR5. Several pages are now PR6; many more would be if not for my moving pages around all over the place.

Obviously he hasn’t updated that page in a while because he’s already up to a PR 7. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander. He’s doing something right at a PR7.

I highly recommend Semiologic Pro, it’s really a cool product.

There are a growing number of work opportunities for Baby Boomers as Corporate America is waking up to the fact that a significant percentage of the work force is getting ready to retire.  And there is a lot of talent in that retiring group.

Even so from a variety of estimates it’s clear, most Boomers are not saving enough.

Did you know? It’s estimated that:

• 4 out of 10 people over 60 will fall below the poverty line in their later years.
• And Merrill Lynch says that many people are only saving about 1/3 of what they will need after retirement.
• Only about 50% of us are saving enough to maintain a pre-retirement lifestyle when we retire.

It’s actually worse for Gen X, but they’re further down the road.

Since Boomers aren’t saving before they retire, how is working deep into retirement age going to solve the problem unless you have a lot of money stashed before you retire? These issues are compounded by the fact that we are living longer so the savings have to go a further distance. 

And we all know that no matter how much we hope it, the social security debackle is getting worse – not better.

If you want to be a wealthy boomer, the answer is making more money.

Find out why starting an online business makes more sense  ==> work at home boomers

It’s not too late for Boomers – who are technophobes or tech challenged – to get started creating something of value online.

And blogging is a really good place to begin because it has a low entry level threshold and you can start with little or no money.

My fiancee is an excellent example of what I am talking about. Prior to last August, the closest she ever got to internet marketing – personally – was spam from her old AOL account. But she took a free online course from Ed Dale and Dan Raine called the Thirty Day Challenge to learn the fundamentals of Web 2.0 and blogging and how to get listed fast in the search engines. Today when I searched on her primary keyword term for her blog, Baby Boomer Life , I found her at #3 in Google.

Pretty cool…

Blogging takes work -  mostly learning how – and consistency. But It’s fun…

She’s worked diligently on creating good content. It helps that she is a talented writer with a great deal of life experience and ability. She really writes interesting stuff because she is an interesting person. But just the same, she created the whole thing herself and has done an excellent job teaching herself about social bookmarking and creating online relationships with other bloggers. Can you tell I’m proud of her?

More about how different ways boomers can start a blog…

StomperNet’s new Web 2.0 coaching program will probably be the greatest thing since sliced internet bread. If you’ll remember, Stomper’s launch in 2006 set the internet marketing world on its ear with an amazing $18.3 Million in online sales in 24 hours…

The SMARTS (Social MARketing Traffic Strategies) preview video with Don Crowther was absolutely excellent. These guys are an amazing brain trust in the internet world and inevitably their new coaching program will have a big impact. Just a minute ago an email came from Andy Jenkins at Stomper saying that the new  program actually sold 121 orders in 4 minutes at launch yesterday – so inevitbaly the numbers will go off the charts again.

Cool, guys – nice job…

Jack Humphrey, whose blog gets 5000 unique visitors a day, has been betting on Web 2.0 for quite a while. He put out one of the finest instructional manuals for Web 2.0 about a year ago. Considering how much traffic he gets that 64 page book should be a mandatory read for anybody interested in creating a successful blog. Get a copy of the authority black book here for nothing.  Good stuff, read it.     (more)

And so do I.     (more)

It is straightforward and understandable. No gimmicks. Don’t have to buy anything to get the report.

Are you serious about creating an online business?

There has never been a better time to. Go get the An Obvious Truth  and read it.     

How to make $300 a month online

I think you’ll agree with me and you can come back here and comment either way.

Good luck with it and have a healthy wealthy day.   (more)