How to Outpoint Father Time | Gunnar Peterson

You mentioned your gym is called Common Ground.

I'm just curious, how did you arrive at that name?

I think the gym is the common ground.

It's where everyone is equal.

Everybody goes in with their own goals, their own ideals, and the weights don't care how old you are, how big you are, what your body composition is, how much money you have, what your responsibilities are.

I think fitness is a level playing field, and it just...

We're all the same in there and it's a nice place for people from all walks of life to come together and do something good for themselves and ultimately for the ripple effect that it has on their respective lives.

And I guess that is the point.

You've worked over, as I say, many decades with musicians, with elite athletes, with other performers on the big screen, on the small screen.

But we're all ultimately people, aren't we? So we all might have different goals in terms of our physical appearance, our physical performance.

But the basic needs don't change, do they, from human to human?

No, and the body is going to work the way the body works on everybody.

And the risks of injury are there for all of us.

And we need the body to be working for us, not against us.

And we need to do what we can to help it do what it does naturally.

If you feed it right, if you let it recover properly, if you train it with whatever degree of intensity you can withstand, as often as you can while getting the recovery in between, it's going to serve you well.

But when you don't, it's not that it lets you down.

That's the thing people say, oh, my body let me down.

I think it's the other way around.

I think you let your body down.

I think you didn't care for it.

And even the most well-built, well-tuned race car has to go into the shop from time to time.

It has to be serviced properly.

You have to put proper fuel in it.

And I think people... take for granted their bodies, especially during, you know, what do they say? Uh, youth is wasted on the young.