40 Being Stronger In Your 60's Than In Your 30's

Is it possible to actually be stronger in your 60’s than you were in your 30’s? It is if you ask Broadway theatrical lighting designer, Ann Wrightson!

Ann has been an InForm Fitness client for 15 years and is stronger than ever. Did we mention that Ann has been nominated for a Tony Award? For her impressive resume and examples of her lighting designs visit https://www.annwrightson.com

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40 Being Stronger In Your 60's Than In Your 30's Transcript

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SPEAKERS

Sheila, Ann Wrightson, Mike, Adam, Tim Edwards

Ann Wrightson  00:05

I think I've always liked feeling strong. My work is very sedentary. When you are working in theater you sit and you sit literally 8 10 hours a day, you get up you take a break when there's an equity break, otherwise you're sitting. So outside of that I liked being active and I liked being strong. And I also noticed over time, the stronger I was the healthier I was.

Tim Edwards  00:31

Inform nation Welcome to the inform fitness podcast, with Adam Zickerman and friends. I'm Tim Edwards with the inbound podcasting network. And this is episode 40 of the inform fitness podcast. Am I the only one clapping never made it before? Yes,

Adam  00:52

you are excited though. I'm holding coffee again. I am really excited about this and no but no better person than have Annie Wrightson with us on our 40th time. She's a long term client with a tremendous success story we know are long I forget how long but she will tell you

Ann Wrightson  01:15

Yeah, 15 years, 2002

Mike  01:20

she's been here for 15 years has an incredible story. And that's why I wanted her to be a guest on the podcast. She's a theatrical lighting designer, and she works all across the country and even in in Europe and Australia occasionally, and but she is most known for she did the lights for August Osage County on Broadway, Tony nominated where on August she was nominated for a Tony Award for design and got us fourth row tickets. It was a phenomenal play, man. Oh,

Adam  01:52

cool. Yeah, I know somebody who is

Sheila  01:57

a true artist actually.

Mike  02:03

It was it was a fantastic and she's so talented. And I've seen lots of her. She showed me a lot of the photographs of some of her work over the years too. And so it's a pleasure to have her here.

Tim Edwards  02:12

Annie, will you share with us some of the of the other productions that you've had a hand in,

Ann Wrightson  02:16

let me think recently, I did a show at Steppenwolf called here. I'm about to go to Steppenwolf in Chicago and do another show called the Rembrandt. Most of my work is outside of New York and around the country. I work in Portland, Cleveland, Atlanta, Hartford everywhere. It's not always easy to have a steady kind of diet of New York theater. So you work everywhere.

Sheila  02:45

Have you ever worked in LA Annie?

Ann Wrightson  02:47

I have I actually did another Broadway show called souvenir. Which went to the Playhouse in Brentwood. Oh, okay. Um, in 2006 I think it might have been, um, but LA doesn't have a huge theatre community. So it's

Adam  03:09

oddly enough

Ann Wrightson  03:10

Yeah. So its a little harder

Sheila  03:12

It's not New York and Chicago.

Ann Wrightson  03:14

Yeah, it is. Yeah. Yeah, it is.

Mike  03:17

Well, Annie, what made you walk in our door back in 2002.

Ann Wrightson  03:23

Um, I was training I have been training myself and with at home trainers for a long time when I was 32. I think I took up weightlifting, free weightlifting on my own. And then then I graduated to have a trainer come to the house. So this was a person who came to the house, Laurie Jackson. And she then started coming here to train here and become a teacher. And she thought this protocol was suited for me, I have scoliosis. So I have issues of being able to get like both hands down on the floor behind me. And I, she was concerned over time that I was losing a lot of flexibility and mobility. So she thought this would help that. And over the course of 15 years, that certainly has

Mike  04:19

this method, this low weight training.

Ann Wrightson  04:20

 Yeah. Just for strength and I think for especially for strength. Mm hmm. Yeah.

Mike  04:27

So want to just let everyone know, annie is 67. And she looks a lot younger than 67.

Sheila  04:34

No, yes.

Mike  04:35

She is. You know, she is a force to be reckoned with.

Sheila  04:39

amazing,

Mike  04:40

you know, incredible performance when she's working out so so what do you think is made you stayed here? Stay here for so long. I'm like What about the workout is really have you been able to stick with

Ann Wrightson  04:52

um, I think I've always liked feeling strong. My work is very sedentary when you are are working in theater, you sit and you sit literally 8 10 hours a day, you get up, you take a break when there's an equity break, otherwise you're sitting. Um, so outside of that I liked being active and I liked being strong. And I also noticed over time, the stronger I was, the healthier I was, um, because sometimes, especially in during technical rehearsals when you're working really long hours in, you're in a cold theater and you're putting stuff up. I know so many designers, especially lighting designers who get sick every single time they do a tech rehearsal. And I don't, I really don't. So I work kind of hard over time to not get sick while I work

Mike  05:51

monitoring your health and be as strong as you think that that was the reason why

Ann Wrightson  05:55

it's part of it Yeah, yeah, sure.

Mike  05:57

Um, how do you think being strong has helped you in your p...