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
Surviving the Shutdown: Loneliness, Loss & Learning to Adapt
The pandemic changed lives in ways most people never expected.
In this heartfelt episode, fitness professional and author Tracy L. Markley reflects on the emotional, financial, and personal challenges experienced during the COVID-19 shutdowns — including isolation, fear, loneliness, and the difficult process of adapting to a completely new way of living and working.
Tracy shares her own story of having her entire in-person business shut down overnight, learning Zoom from scratch, and figuring out how to continue helping clients while navigating uncertainty and loss. She also talks openly about how isolating the pandemic felt for people living alone, how many struggled emotionally, and why empathy and connection are so important — especially during difficult times.
This episode is a message of compassion, resilience, and encouragement for anyone who lived through hardship during the pandemic — and a reminder that you were not alone.
IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL HEAR ABOUT:
- The emotional impact of isolation and sudden life changes
- The loneliness many people experienced but didn’t talk about
- The struggle of losing a business or career stability overnight
- Tracy’s journey learning Zoom and adapting her work to support others
- How fear, uncertainty, and disconnection affected mental health
- Why empathy, kindness, and awareness matter more than ever
- The importance of supporting people who live alone or lost support systems
- Encouragement for anyone still recovering emotionally or financially
This episode is honest, real, and deeply human — offering comfort, understanding, and hope to anyone who struggled through the pandemic or its aftermath.