Meet Dave Frost | Coach, author, and masters champion

We had the good fortune of connecting with Dave Frost and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Dave, what habits do you feel helped you succeed?
There traits or habits that helped me get this far were shared by an Olympic rowing champion:

1. Be a student of any worthy endeavor
2. Recruit a network of like-minded rabbis or coaches and
3. Prepare and train as if I’m an underdog (in second place)

Can you open up a bit about your work and career? We’re big fans and we’d love for our community to learn more about your work.
My art forms are in print, empathetic communications, and kinetic coaching. I agree that nature has amazing art all around us. Yet our human bodies rank, in my opinion, among the natural wonders of the art world. You don’t have to be DaVinci to appreciate how our bodies look, feel and operate. My artistic director role is to help people hone and celebrate their naturally developed bodies.
I am most proud of my bespoke solutions developed for clients who gain confidence and restore physical abilities when they are inspired to make motion their medicine. These solutions are eminently gratifying when a client is facing a palsy, Parkinson’s Disease, MS, diabetes or obesity.

I attained my artistic director position sometime a 60-year journey that included my phoenix experience on 9/11/2001.
It was a herniated L-5-S1 spinal disk that triggered my encore career in personal training, coaching adaptive rowers in crew, elite Masters rowing, and self-publishing specialty non-fiction primers for fitness, wellness and longevity.

Easy Peasy? Not by any stretch of my imagination. Doing the work is, as Edison asserted, 99% perspiration with 1% inspiration. I tackled each speedbump in my journey with a growing, confident “yes, and” mindset that made each challenge a “why not?” chance to achieve.

Lessons Learned? First, good people make this crazy world go round. Second, it is always prudent to find other imaginative and hard working souls with who to collaborate. Third, any day that ends with the letter “y” is a great day to achieve something for others and for myself. Fourth, I know that the Platinum Rule helps me in inter-personal engagements. And lastly, Charles Osgood’s RESPONSIBILITY poem speaks loudly to me to rise as the “Somebody” who gets things done.

My coaching brand is built to help baby boomers thrive and strive into their nineties as KABOOMERS. It has a new branded thrust for GenX to live loner and die harder, using strength as the down-ager X factor.

My story is a modern day stoic saga in some respects for aligning mind and body to thoughtfully and kinetically make things happen for the better.

Let’s say your best friend was visiting the area and you wanted to show them the best time ever. Where would you take them? Give us a little itinerary – say it was a week long trip, where would you eat, drink, visit, hang out, etc.
Well, my wife and I are truly blessed to call the Golden State and sunny San Diego our home. With the Platinum Rule in mind, I try to plan activities that truly embrace the wants of our visitors.

On a recent hosting of our daughter’s family, we took the grandkids to see some MIDWAY magic, and natural beauties of the Point Loma tidal pools at low tide.

Now, for a best friend or compadre, I would try to incorporate a hike or two to take in the shore, and hills of our region. Getting in a workout – on land or on the water – is a bestie tradition. After all, there is nothing so fun as messing around in boats – right?

I would cook a favorite meal before taking my best friend out for dinner. Though, I’d certainly pick a local micro-brew pub to sip a hoppy drink and people watch in cocktail hour.

If I was a weeklong tour guide – Balboa Park, Mission Bay, Coronado’s Hotel Del, the Cabrillo Monument and Park, the Torrey Pines walk, and any number of beaches to get your feet wet and soak up our natural Vitamin D. The USS Midway Museum is ever-changing and always worth a proud 1/2 day onboard. If schedules allow, taking in an Old Globe show is a top-notch, must do cultural check. History nuts like me should hike up to the Presidion. Maritime lovers like me should visit our Maritime Museum!

America’s Finest City has full plates of activities – so my guests better suggest a few or many things to make it their best visit ever.

The Shoutout series is all about recognizing that our success and where we are in life is at least somewhat thanks to the efforts, support, mentorship, love and encouragement of others. So is there someone that you want to dedicate your shoutout to?
Certainly.

I wish to honor our women and men in uniformed service.

All give some, and some give all.

Website: https://wellpastforty.com

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