{"id":15258,"date":"2019-04-26T11:22:36","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T18:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicalfitnessnetwork.org\/public\/?p=15258"},"modified":"2020-05-18T09:41:51","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T16:41:51","slug":"why-for-boomers-and-seniors-price-is-not-an-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/all-mfn\/why-for-boomers-and-seniors-price-is-not-an-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Why For Boomers and Seniors, Price Is Not An Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watch as Dan Ritchie, co-founder and president of the Functional Aging Institute, discusses why price is less of a concern for boomers and seniors and what is of more value to them than the price itself.<\/p>\n<p>They are more concerned with you being able to train them for the results they are after with the services you provide. \u00a0The client over 50 years old often has a much higher net worth and have more financial resources at their allocation.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Oyw9h14deJM\" width=\"480\" height=\"298\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in training this population, check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/professionals\/our-partners\/continuing-education-providers\/functional-aging-institute\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Functional Aging Institute partner page<\/a> to learn about their Functional Aging Specialist\u2122 Certification. MFN professional members receive a $100 discount on this certification!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>This video was reprinted with permission from the FAI blog.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/about\/advisory-board\/dan-ritchie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dan Ritchie, PhD<\/a>, has a broad background in the fitness industry including training and management in commercial and university\/hospital-based fitness, for-profit, not for-profit and educational facilities. His primary areas of expertise are in personal training for special populations: athletes, pregnancy, blind, stroke recovery, Parkinsons, multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy, Fibromyalgia, Alzheimers, etc.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch as Dan Ritchie, co-founder and president of the Functional Aging Institute, discusses why price is less of a concern for boomers and seniors and what is of more value to them than the price itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":117,"featured_media":7137,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[134,198,193],"class_list":["post-15258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-mfn","tag-fitness","tag-fitness-professionals","tag-healthy-aging"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/117"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}