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
Gardening is more than a hobby — It can be a full-body workout!
Gardening is more than a hobby — it’s a full-body workout.
In this uplifting episode, fitness professional and author Tracy L. Markley explains how gardening naturally burns calories, strengthens muscles, improves mobility, and supports overall wellness. Many people don’t realize how physically demanding gardening actually is, or how much benefit it provides for balance, coordination, core strength, and joint mobility.
Tracy breaks down what muscles are used when digging, bending, pulling weeds, carrying soil, pushing a wheelbarrow, reaching, squatting, and planting. You’ll learn how everyday gardening tasks can raise the heart rate, improve endurance, and contribute to better functional strength — all while doing something enjoyable and relaxing.
This episode also encourages listeners to see movement in a broader way: exercise doesn’t always have to look like a workout. Sometimes it looks like being in your yard, connecting with nature, and moving your body with purpose.
IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL HEAR ABOUT:
- How gardening burns calories and increases daily movement
- The major muscle groups used during common gardening tasks
- Why gardening helps with balance, mobility, and functional strength
- How bending, reaching, pulling, and lifting contribute to joint stability
- Ways to stay safe and avoid strain or injury while gardening
- How outdoor activities improve brain health, mood, and overall well-being
- Why enjoyable movement is often the easiest way to stay active
Whether you love gardening, want to move more without “working out,” or are looking for simple lifestyle activities that keep you strong and mobile, this episode will inspire you to look at your garden — and your body — in a whole new light.
🌐 LEARN MORE FROM TRACY
Website: www.tracymarkley.com
Amazon Author Page: www.amazon.com/author/tracymarkley
Stroke Recovery Bookstore: www.strokerecoverybooks.com
Instagram: www.instagram.com/motivate_healthyfit