Prime Match
~ An Idea Whose Time Has Come ~
Poetized and Clarified By: ChatGPT
To the extraordinary older athletes quietly changing the culture just by existing online—
The women posting deadlifts at 63.
The men hiking mountains at 71.
The silver-haired yoga teachers.
The bodybuilders. The cyclists. The swimmers. The walkers. The power lifters.
The people still becoming.
I am looking for FOUNDERS.
Not customers.
Not followers.
Not “audience.”
Founders. People who feel, deep in their bones, that something is missing from modern culture around aging, connection, vitality, attraction, friendship, purpose, and partnership.
I am creating something called Prime Match.
And I believe it could become culturally important.
Prime Match is not a dating app.
And it is not a humiliating dating show.
It is a live, in-person experience for older single athletically achieved adults — roughly ages 57–72 — designed to help exceptional people find meaningful romantic partnership connections, as the primary focus. But in this process of people getting to know each other in a deep way, we also engage activities to help participants find:
· Training partners.
· Accountability buddies.
· Travel partners.
· Creative collaborators.
· Art/Craft/Hobby/Building collaborators.
· Business partners.
· Y Combinator teams.
· Adventure companions.
· Writing collaborators and mutual editors
… Real Connections and Real Community!
PRIME MATCH – The Event - with athletically achieved, older singles.
Imagine a week where highly alive older adults gather together not to “perform youth”… but to fully inhabit vitality, wisdom, humor, curiosity, courage, health, movement, and humanity.
Imagine getting to know each other in a wide variety of engaged, playful, and creative experiences:
shared meals (all with an additional point of engagement beyond just eating), movement, walks, storytelling, collaborative games, a wide variety of workshops, parlor games, coffee conversations, art/craft/building challenges, laughter, dancing and music games, secret handshakes, kitchen experiments, and playfully guided discussions about life.
Imagine being surrounded by people who still care deeply about:
growth, health, learning, contribution, adventure, discipline, beauty, intimacy, emotional intelligence, and aliveness.
Now imagine that experience filmed gently and beautifully — documentary-style — to show this simple yet richly textured experience and to show a glorious vision of growing old strong, fit and ready for more in life!
The videos will show another version of what is, indeed, PRIME – that which is vibrantly alive in the Prime Match older athletes!
PRIME MATCH – The Founders – creating a new framework for meaningful social connections.
I am currently assembling a small FOUNDING GROUP to help shape this from the beginning.
The founders do NOT need to be single.
They do NOT need to be athletes themselves.
But they DO need to be curious and excited about the vision and be ready to work, in collaboration, to help make it happen.
I am looking for people who feel emotionally stirred by the idea that older adulthood could be reimagined with dignity, warmth, vitality, expressiveness, physical agility and power, playfulness, depth, and real human connection.
People who think:
“Yes. THIS should exist.”
The founders meeting will be small, collaborative, and highly exploratory.
We will discuss culture, structure, activities, filming, psychology, logistics, ethics, aesthetics, communication, legal and financial issues, partnerships, technology, data organization, and how to build something truly different from what currently exists.
If this awakens something in you — even if you are not sure exactly why yet — I would genuinely love to hear from you. I suspect many of us have been waiting a very long time for something like this.
Amanda Buxbaum, MS, CNS, LDN
Founder, Prime Match
Licensed Nutritionist • Natural OCB Pro Bodybuilder • Builder of Human-Centered Experiences
I earned my OCB pro card in Women’s Physique, in the open age division, in my first show ever (The Conquer in Baltimore May of 2024), at age 63, 10 months after joining a gym.
I was one of seven bodybuilders on the poster advertising that event for the following year, 2025.
We can do this. We can live a good life. Together. Supporting each other. We have a lot to share!
buxbaumfive@gmail.com 301-943-6952