About
Gary Purdy
Coach, prostate cancer survivor and Abbott World Marathon Majors Six Star Finisher — and a reasonably ordinary person who found out what consistency does over twenty years.
A career built at a desk
Gary Purdy spent more than twenty years managing technology in financial services. It was demanding, interesting work, and like a lot of people in that world, health was something to get to later.
Later has a way of arriving without warning.
A diagnosis
Gary was diagnosed with prostate cancer. He does not dramatise that period — plenty of people have faced harder. But it changed permanently how he thinks about time, and about what a body is for.
He came out the other side of treatment with a question he could not put down: what is a person actually capable of, given attention and patience?
Learning to run
The answer arrived slowly, in running shoes. Not naturally, and not quickly. What he had was a willingness to keep showing up on unremarkable mornings when nothing about it felt inspiring.
That accumulation eventually carried him across the finish line of all six original Abbott World Marathon Majors.
Becoming a coach
Along the way people started asking how. So he went and learned properly: certification as an RRCA running coach, as a holistic health coach through the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, and as a NASM certified personal trainer.
Prosperous Lifestyle grew out of that — a practice built around education, movement, encouragement and honest accountability, for adults who intend to stay capable.
“Every day is an opportunity to become a better you. Embrace it.”
Six stars
Six cities. Six finish lines.
Gary has completed all six original Abbott World Marathon Majors. The series has since expanded to nine cities.
- 01Tokyo
- 02Boston
- 03London
- 04Berlin
- 05Chicago
- 06New York City
The philosophy
Nurture the mind, build the body, free the spirit.
The aim is a world where people have both the knowledge and the support to be healthy at any age — not only those who happened to be athletic at twenty-five.
That means education instead of hype, evidence instead of fads, and a pace of change you can actually live with. It means treating sleep, stress, food and movement as one conversation, because that is how a life works.
And it means being honest: no one can promise outcomes. What coaching can do is help you build the habits that make good outcomes far more likely, and stay alongside you while you do it.
Next step
Tell Gary where you are. You'll go from there.
An introductory conversation costs nothing and commits you to nothing. It's simply the fastest way to find out whether coaching can help.