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Doug Melody, Ph.D.

SPEAKING

Bring Doug to your audience

A HYROX finisher at 76 with a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology, on what it takes to keep getting stronger as we age.

Empty stage with a single microphone under a spotlight

TOPICS

What Doug talks about

Each talk can be shaped to your audience, from athletes and coaches to community groups and adults in their 60s, 70s and beyond.

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Choose your hard

​Why fitness is hard work, why being unfit is a harder life, and how to choose wisely at any age.

The human spirit has no expiration date

Eleven months of training and a HYROX finish at 76, alongside his son. Mindset, deliberate practice and intergenerational partnership.

The mind-body connection

​Fifty years of study and practice in self-efficacy, achievement motivation and sports performance.

A new script on growing older

​Ideas from How to Die Young as Old as You Can on extending your health span with attitude and activity.

FORMATS

Keynotes, panels and podcasts

Doug is based in West Hartford, Connecticut. Share your event, date, audience and format and he will follow up personally.

Doug Melody and his son at the HYROX New York finish line with a finish time of 1:47:43
Doug Melody pushing a weighted sled in a gym
Doug Melody embracing his son after the HYROX race
Doug Melody pulling a heavy sled rope at a HYROX training gym with his son
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Misty country road at sunrise leading toward the horizon

Have an event in mind?

Tell Doug about it. He replies personally to every speaking inquiry.

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