Q: What's the best thing you can do to prevent injury?
DiNubile: Seek balance - equal amounts of cardio, strength-building, core, and flexibility exercise. Factor in your weak links, and pick routines that are right for you.
Q: What's your opinion of barefoot running?
DiNubile: It's trouble, especially for older athletes. People need more, not less, shock absorption.
Q: What's the essential message of your best-selling book, FrameWork, and the related PBS special?
DiNubile: There's a mismatch between longevity and durability. If you're lucky and have the right genes and take care of yourself, longevity is not an issue. It's durability that's the big problem for many of us in the second half. Life expectancy has doubled, but evolution hasn't caught up, and we're outliving the warranty on our frame, wearing out our body parts.
Q: What do you mean by boomeritis?
DiNubile: It's shorthand for our weak links and vulnerabilities, the gray hair and wrinkles of the musculoskeletal system.
Q: Should we be doing push-ups and pounding the pavement after age 60?
DiNubile: It's a matter of finding and respecting your limits. If you have a torn rotator cuff, you shouldn't be doing heavy or explosive overhead weight training. If you have arthritis in your knees, you shouldn't run marathons.
Q: Do you endorse "no pain, no gain"?
DiNubile: It's not a great mantra or second-half strategy. Your body's reparative capacity dwindles with age; it takes longer to heal and to recover from workouts. Pain is an important warning signal. There's a difference between hurting and harming.
Q: You're an advocate of "3-D fitness." What's that?
