Younger Next Year: A guide to living like 50 until you’re 80 and beyond

 

Younger Next Year: A guide to living like 50 until you’re 80 and beyond

 

The books are separated by sex into two volumes, which I call: Studly Once More, and Back in a Bikini.

 

Here’s the premise, shamelessly plagiarized from the book jacket: Younger Next Year is about how men (and women) can turn back their biological clocks.  How they can become functionally younger every year for years to come, and continue to live with vitality and grace into their eighties and beyond.  How they can avoid 70 percent of the decay and eliminate 50 percent of the injuries and illnesses associated with getting older.

 

Sadly, it does not cover how to down beer faster than a teenager at a keg party.  Nor will young men swoon over your luscious bod.  Well, maybe they will after the keg party.

 

The authors are Chris Crowley, a normal guy (70 years old) following the precepts and concepts of the book, and Henry S. Lodge, M.D., a board certified internist whose name you’ll find on many surveys of best doctors in New York, America, and the world.

 

Chris’ journey begins with a trip to Dr. Lodge for a routine checkup.  He’s in fairly good shape, but a little overweight.  Dr. Lodge is pleased, generally speaking.  Doctors are never completely pleased and usually for good reasons.  My father once asked and answered a rhetorical question:  Why the hell am I going for a checkup?  The doc’s just going to tell me to lose weight and get more exercise!  Yes, he was pissed at the doctor!

 

Dr. Lodge avoided the usual and approached Chris in a positive way.  …basically, can be as athletic, vigorous, and alert as you were at fifty until you’re eighty or older.

 

Yeah, but HOW?

 

The doc continued:  Hard to summarize, but there are three things: Exercise. Nutrition. Commitment.

 

Doc, I need some details!

 

Do hard exercisse six days a week, and on two of those days also do strength training.  A closer look at “hard exercise” doesn’t mean an unmanageable Olympic effort, but it does mean swimming, biking, or numerous other ways that get your heart rate up.  And it also means the dedication to do it six days a week.

 

There’s another interesting concept at play. With two authors coming at it from both doctor and patient directions, Younger Next Year promotes positive, interesting and understandable perceptions.   Doctor Lodge covers the physiological and anatomical details of resetting your “age clock,” while Chris (who lost 40 pounds, by the way) walks you through the “regular guy” reality of resetting your life and having fun doing it.

 

Two words give you the concept:  Stay Active!  But those two words are so broad that without getting the full explanation, motivation, and coaching that Younger Next Year gives, they float around loosely in a cloud, leaving you to settle back, have another beer and promise yourself you’ll think about it, as soon as you have nothing better to do. 

 

How to break the inertia and stay motivated?  Pick out exercise(s) you enjoy and look forward to.  Take the slow approach. Listen to your body and let it tell you when you’re ready to pick up the pace. Keep going!  It’s going to get better!

 

What Younger Next Year really tells you is YOU CAN DO IT and what it gives you is a doable plan.

 

In short order, you’ll notice how proper diet and exercise leaves you with more pep and a brighter outlook, improves creativity, and makes you more aware of life’s possibilities?  Ready for that?  Well, buy Younger Next Year before you order anything else from Amazon.

 

It’ill pump up your motivation, and I’m telling you, you’ll feel younger next year.