Audiobook (abridged)7 hours
Younger Next Year: Live Strong, Fit, and Sexy - Until You're 80 and Beyond
Written by Henry S. Lodge, MD and Chris Crowley
Narrated by Rick Adamson and Don Leslie
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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Turn back your biological clock. A breakthrough book for men-as much fun to read as it is persuasive-Younger Next Year draws on the very latest science of aging to show how men 50 or older can become functionally younger every year for the next five to ten years, and continue to live like fifty-year-olds until well into their eighties. To enjoy life and be stronger, healthier, and more alert. To stave off 70% of the normal decay associated with aging (weakness, sore joints, apathy), and to eliminate over 50% of all illness and potential injuries. This is the real thing, a program that will work for anyone who decides to apply himself to "Harry's Rules."
Harry is Henry S. Lodge, M.D., a specialist in internal medicine and preventive healthcare. Chris Crowley is Harry's 70-year-old patient who's stronger today (and skiing better) than when he was 40. Together, in alternating chapters that are lively, sometimes outspoken, and always utterly convincing, they spell out Harry's Rules and the science behind them. The rules are deceptively simple: Exercise Six Days a Week. Eat What You Know You Should. Connect to Other People and Commit to Feeling Passionate About Something. The science, simplified and demystified, ranges from the molecular biology of growth and decay to how our bodies and minds evolved (and why they fare so poorly in our sedentary, all-feast no-famine culture). The result is nothing less than a paradigm shift in our view of aging.
Welcome to the next third of your life-train for it, and you'll have a ball.
Harry is Henry S. Lodge, M.D., a specialist in internal medicine and preventive healthcare. Chris Crowley is Harry's 70-year-old patient who's stronger today (and skiing better) than when he was 40. Together, in alternating chapters that are lively, sometimes outspoken, and always utterly convincing, they spell out Harry's Rules and the science behind them. The rules are deceptively simple: Exercise Six Days a Week. Eat What You Know You Should. Connect to Other People and Commit to Feeling Passionate About Something. The science, simplified and demystified, ranges from the molecular biology of growth and decay to how our bodies and minds evolved (and why they fare so poorly in our sedentary, all-feast no-famine culture). The result is nothing less than a paradigm shift in our view of aging.
Welcome to the next third of your life-train for it, and you'll have a ball.
Editor's Note
Beyond a beach body…
This year, commit to focusing on fitness well beyond beach body season. This bestselling book is all about becoming stronger — and feeling younger — for the long haul.
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Reviews for Younger Next Year
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I have read quite a few books about health and well being over the years. This book brings all the knowledge together in a simple, fun and interesting manner. If you are in your mid life and wondering how to improve the years ahead then please read this. Even if you take a couple of pointers away you will be in a much better position than you are at this moment in life.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Recommend this to everyone, a must read book of 2020
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Motivated me to exercise daily, positive outlook on life.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I had this as an audiobook and it was really an eyeopener and packed with useful and in every sense life prolonging solid advice. Dr. Lodge was so insightful and through in explaining the whys and wherefores of everything. Chris come off a little gruff at times but as a high powered former attorney I guess we should expect that.I am implementing many of the steps as outlined and am a true believer that this massive action approach will have great results. Poor health do to our own contribution is truly an epidemic situation for the aging and this is a positive step in the right direction to right the ship.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The definitive lifestyle management book for health aging. Covers physical activity, nutrition, and lifestyle guidelines. Excellent!
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I read this book when I was 55 and followed it religiously for three years. I exercised vigorously six days per week.
However, I later decided that six days per week were simply too many, and didn't give my body enough rest time in between. There were some nights when I was extremely tired, and I suspect that was due to the lack of recover time.
Also, although the authors understood the problems of high-carbohydrate meals, I don't think they took this far enough.
So now I exercise four days a week, typically with one five-hour bike ride (60 miles), on strength-training day (Boxflex), and another day of a long walk or some high-intensity intervals. That seems to work better.
In general, the concepts in this book are well-explained and important. The most important being that the only way to communicate with your body, and tell it that it shouldn't break itself down and store fat, is to exercise.
One other note: I gave this to my older sister, and she felt that it "changed her life." She became much more active. However, I think she's reverted to her old ways a bit. - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A good read and a useful book. I don't know whether these guys are right or not, but it dosen't matter. I am 75 and have recently begun to fall, starting with the stairs in my sister in law's house in Cambridge MA. That cost me a week in Mt Aubutn Hospital in Cambridge and then four weeks at a rehab facility on the east side where the young ladies did a wonderful job in physical and occupational therapy. Despite o whole lot of exercises and a loss of 30 pounds,( food at these places is the pits and the hospital has completely given up) I continue to fall. My doc is Henry Lodge, who co-wrote this book with Chris Crowley, and I think that his advice is pretty good. Crowley talked about how much the doc contributed to the effort yet i see he is the sole author according to this website. He is as full of crap as those revolting Irish nurses at the Cambridge hospital.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Even if we can't live forever, we can extend our life and certainly the quality of it to be active and vital for the last third. These two authors seem to have the science and the experience to tell us how. Holding back the tide of forces that erode us in our later years is possible, with some knowledge and daily discipline. The underlying premise involves replicating the biological signals that tell our primitive brain: it's spring, we're being product, and it's time to grow. Otherwise, when you sit around, inactive and alone, it triggers the body's decay mode. Winter is here and more winter is coming. The authors' include a very practical plan that anyone can follow, if they make the time. They describe their own execution of it in ways to make exercise social and fun.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Great tips on exercise and health in the last third of life. It wasn't til I was almost done with the book it became obvious that it was for men. But it was very readable with alternating chapters by the two authors. Recommend this for anyone retiring and/or over 60.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Not memorable enough that I remembered anything in it four years later.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Another installment in the Old Races universe, this one a single long "short story". Sarah's story. Which is as awesome as you would expect. Love the detail work on this one. Definitely a good read!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This is a great fun and inspiring read. It is directed to men near the beginning of the last third of life, i.e. around 60. So I am certainly in the target audience!The book is structured around Harry's Seven Rules: 1) Exercise six days a week for the rest of your life; 2) Do serious aerobic exercise four days a week for the rest of your life; 3) Do serious strength training, with weights, two days a week for the rest of your life; 4) Spend less than you make; 5) Quit eating crap; 6) Care; 7) Connect and commit.The chapters more or less alternate between Chris and his physician Harry. Chris tells lots of stories from his own life and Harry gives more a scientific justification of the program they outline. The basic idea is that we are living beings, animals, mammals - that is the biological foundation on which our humanity rests. Our humanity is a rather thin layer on top of all that biology. Denying our animality just doesn't work. The smart strategy is to recognize and work with it. At one point they use the analogy of a horse and rider. That reminds me of the classic analogy from the Katha Upanisad, which I think was more a chariot drawn by several horses, but the intent was basically the same. The program they outline is not so far from how I have been living already, but it has motivated me to make some changes. I try to exercise regularly but with only moderate success. This book has given me good motivational tools to be a lot more regular! Primarily by explaining how important it is. I am also cutting back to two cups of coffee/tea a day which should help me sleep better.They do talk a bit about how this program is suitable for a wide range of budgets but I must say it does come across directed at... well, money is funny... Chris was a high powered lawyer... there is a lot of talk here about travel and gym memberships and shiny new equipment. Just regular medical checkups. I can afford rent and food and heat & figure that's pretty good. I think the program presented here can work just fine on a limited budget. But the presentation could put folks off a bit who aren't set up quite as nicely as a retired high power lawyer.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This book is highly motivating to get you to exercise.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5There's nothing earthshattering in this book, but it presents a fairly simple and practical method for pursuing good health, concentrating on men over 50 years of age.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5An easy to read guide to some basic methods for limiting and deferring some of the physical problems of aging. The prose is simple and the rules are effective. Included in the book is some observations on basic scientific discoveries about our bodies and how they work. I look forward to living the way the authors recommend and enjoying the benefits.