Executive health tips: one suggestion: check airportgyms.com.

• Author: McKimmie, Kathy
• Position: EXECUTIVE HEALTH

YOU'RE A BUSY EXECUTIVE, with no time for a fitness routine except for the occasional round of golf. Your time is not your own, it seems, with endless meetings, business lunches and travel, plus trying to meet family obligations.

Sounds like you're doomed to be overweight, stressed out and heading for health problems. But it doesn't have to be that way. You could take a page out of Joe Miller's fitness book. The 54-year-old CEO of Westbrook Development, a real-estate management and development firm in down-town Indianapolis, not only works out regularly at the National Institute of Fitness and Sport--NIFS, on the campus of Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis--but might as well be a spokesman for its executive-physical program.

"No matter how much money you make or what you achieve in life, it's really your health that's important," says Miller, "not just for you and your family, but for your company and your employees."

NIFS has a "stunning array" of workout opportunities, says Miller, from aerobics to free weights to a wide range of machines. But equally important is the significant health research done there, and the comprehensive executive-physical program tied into the full resources of IU Medical Group and Clarian Health when needed.

Miller admits to being more disciplined than most, starting when he managed health clubs in college, and he had his own gym at his office when it was located in Zionsville. When he moved his office and home to downtown Indianapolis, he discovered NIFS and has been an active member for 15 years.

His annual physical with Dr. Michael Busk, a pulmonologist and associate professor of clinical medicine at the IU School of Medicine and medical and research director at NIFS, costs about $1,300 and is covered by insurance. When results of blood work, treadmill and other tests are in, he has a lengthy discussion with Busk to compare them to prior years. "It reminds you of things you should be doing," says Miller. Then he's referred to various experts at the IU medical complex, such as an eye doctor or dermatologist, as needed.

There's no average person getting executive physicals at NIFS. They range from people in their 20s to their 80s, says Busk, and more women are beginning to take advantage of them. As a regional center with a national reputation, NIFS' 425 exams per year include people throughout the Midwest, with a few from as far away as D.C. and Denver. The physicals are comprehensive, with such gender-related tests as mammograms and PSA tests for prostate screening added to the mix.

Age triggers certain tests as well, says Busk. The newest is ultrasound screening for an...