The Health & Fitness Show with Tracy - Podcast
The Health & Fitness Show with Tracy is your source of practical, uplifting, and science-rooted guidance for living a stronger, safer, and more confident life — at any age.
Hosted by Tracy Markley, internationally recognized fitness educator, award-winning author, stroke recovery specialist, and creator of the bestselling books The Stroke Recovery Workbook, Brain & Body, and Balance Walking and Fall Prevention, this podcast blends expertise with heart. Tracy’s decades of experience helping stroke survivors, seniors, and everyday adults rebuild strength, balance, mobility, and hope shine through every episode.
Whether you’re looking to improve your proprioception, feel steadier on your feet, better understand your body, prevent falls, recover from injury, or simply age with power and grace, this show gives you real tools — not fluff. Tracy brings compassion, clear explanations, and encouraging motivation to help you feel capable, empowered, and ready to move forward.
🎧 Tune in for:
- Balance, gait, and fall-prevention tips
- Stroke recovery insights from one of the most trusted voices in the field
- Fitness and mobility guidance for seniors and pre-seniors
- Brain–body education and nervous system support
- Strength training, walking programs, and functional movement
- Real stories from people who regained independence and confidence
- Encouragement, mindset support, and realistic strategies you can use today
- Hearing loss
- Fitness and exercise for all ages
- Muscles, joints, ligaments, fascia and more
- and much more
⭐ Learn More & Stay Connected
Website: https://www.tracymarkley.com
Books by Tracy Markley: https://www.amazon.com/author/tracymarkley
YouTube Channel: https://youtube.com/@TracyMarkley
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tracy.markley
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tracyfitt
⭐ Your Host
Tracy Markley is a fitness trainer, educator, and author known for blending anatomy, neuroscience, and compassion to help others move better and live better. Her work has transformed lives around the world — from stroke survivors rebuilding mobility to adults who simply want their body to feel like home again
The Health & Fitness Show with Tracy - Podcast
Peter Twist Interview | Grief, Loss & Life Lessons from a Stage 4 Cancer Survivor & Fitness Leader
Welcome to the Health and Fitness Show with Tracy Podcast.
In life we all experience many challenges including the many dynamics of loss and grieving. We cannot escape it. In this episode Tracy interviews Peter Twist and he shares great insight, wisdom, and stories that can help you and your loved ones This powerful and emotional premiere interview brings together two leaders in fitness — both shaped by deep loss, resilience, and the desire to help others heal.
In this heartfelt episode of The Health & Fitness Show with Tracy, award-winning trainer and author Tracy L. Markley sits down with Peter Twist, world-renowned athletic coach, educator, and Stage 4 cancer survivor.
Peter, former Head Strength and Conditioning Coach for the Vancouver Canucks, opens up about his life-changing cancer journey, the mindset that carried him through treatment, and the profound clarity that comes from facing mortality. Together, Tracy and Peter share personal stories of grief, including the passing of their beloved Husky dogs, and how those experiences deepened their compassion, empathy, and purpose.
This conversation shines a light on emotional recovery, the power of movement, and the way human connection can help us rebuild after devastating loss. It is a deeply inspiring dialogue for anyone navigating grief, healing, resilience, or life transitions.
IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN:
- How Peter Twist’s Stage 4 cancer experience transformed his life and outlook
- Strategies for healing after grief, loss, and emotional hardship
- How movement, mindset, and purpose support recovery and resilience
- Insights from Peter’s decades of leadership in the global fitness industry
- Why vulnerability, gratitude, and connection are key to rebuilding
- How Tracy and Peter turned their pain into compassion and service
This conversation is heartfelt, raw, and uplifting — a reminder that even in the hardest moments, there is courage, meaning, and hope.
🌐 LEARN MORE FROM TRACY
Website: www.tracymarkley.com
Amazon Author Page: www.amazon.com/author/tracymarkley
Instagram: www.instagram.com/motivate_healthyfit
Peter Twist can be reached through www.instagram.com/coachpetertwist
His Champion Mental Well Being Course can be found at the link below
https://twistuniversity.inspire360.com/p/champion-mindset-mental-well-being
Tracy Markley can be reached through her website & Instagram
www.tracymarkley.com
www.instagram.com/motivate_healthyfit
www.instagram.com/the_health_and_fitness_show
Her books can be purchased at www.tracymarkley.com
and on Amazon at
www.amazon.com/author/tracymarkley