Geoff ’s sage fitness advice

THE star of Virgin Active’s new advertising campaign is a 64-year-old with a six-pack who started a new career as a personal trainer after becoming bored with retirement. Lifelong fitness fanatic Geoff Walcott, right, retired early at 56. But he said: ‘I got a fitness-instructor qualification, just for something to do. I’d only intended to work parttime but now I’m doing it seven days a week. ‘Fitness is not about age. My advice to my older clients is always that it’s a journey. First you need to get healthy – gentle, moderate exercise and changing your eating habits – then you can get fit, and then you can train hard.’