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The definitive exercise book that the one-million-plus readers of the Younger Next Year® series have been waiting for--and the exercise book that takes the intimidation out of starting a workout routine. Based on the science that shows how we can turn back our biological clocks by a combination of aerobics and strength fitness, it's a guide that will show every reader how to live with newfound vibrancy, strength, endurance, confidence, and joy--and it goes deep enough to be your exercise companion for life, even if you eventually take it to Masters levels. Younger Next Year: The Exercise Program combines the best information from the New York Times bestselling Younger Next Year with the cutting-edge knowledge and workouts from Thinner This Year. Here is the revolutionary 10-minute warm-up (critical for maintaining ankle, shoulder, and hip mobility). The five amazing things aerobic exercise will do for your body, and finding the method that works for you. How to get fit better and quicker with intervals. The importance of "whole-body" strength training and "rebooting the core." Plus, the Twenty-Five Sacred Exercises that will be the foundation for your strength-training routine for life.

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Younger Next Year Exercise Program combines the best information from Younger Next Year with the cutting-edge workouts from Thinner This Year. Here is the 10-minute warm-up (critical for maintaining ankle, shoulder, and hip mobility). The five amazing things aerobic exercise will do for your body, and finding the method that works for you.

“[A] sensible and achievable plan.” –Bookpage

“Filled with research-based advice . . . inspirational . . . written with a twinkle in its eye.”--Miami Herald

"This book is the perfect package of motivation and education!" – Manhattan Book Review
 

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Henry S. Lodge, MD, FACP, listed variously as “One of the Best Doctors in New York/America/the World,” headed a twenty-doctor practice in Manhattan and was the Robert Burch Family Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Medical Center.

Chris Crowley, a former litigator (Davis Polk & Wardwell), is the coauthor, with Henry S. Lodge, of the Younger Next Year books, and the coauthor, with Jen Sacheck, PhD, of Thinner This Year. Though in his eighties, he fully lives the life, skiing black diamonds and routinely doing thirty-mile bike rides. He and his wife live in Connecticut and New York City.

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A training program for the rest of your life
 
Science proves that we can turn back our biological clocks through exercise. This is the guide that not only shows you how to start an exercise regimen, but also provides the motivation and know-how to keep it going for life.
 
Just as important: Here is the guide that shows the right way to exercise. How much aerobics to do. How to calculate heart rate effectively. How hard to hit those intervals. The magic of dynamic warm-ups versus old-style stretching, and the key to pain-free joints for life. How to do crunches to preserve your back.
 
Plus: The 25 Sacred Exercises, the foundation for a whole-body strength-training regimen by Bill Fabrocini, P.T., illustrated and with step-by-step directions for doing each exercise correctly.

Zusammenfassung
Younger Next Year Exercise Program combines the best information from Younger Next Year with the cutting-edge workouts from Thinner This Year. Here is the 10-minute warm-up (critical for maintaining ankle, shoulder, and hip mobility). The five amazing things aerobic exercise will do for your body, and finding the method that works for you.

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Introduction Why another exercise book, and why this book specifically? Because your life should be better. Much better. And recent science has revolutionized our understanding of how exercise can reshape your body, your brain, and your life. We explained the why and the how of exercise in our previous Younger Next Year books, and Chris’s book, Thinner This Year.

Chris Crowley is my patient, dear friend, and partner in writing these books. More important, he is the living, breathing, exuberant voice of vibrant aging in America. Chris is out there living all of our dreams, and his whole purpose in life is to pull you into the dream with him.

In this book, we take the best information from Younger Next Year and the innovative exercise programs from Thinner This Year to give you a road map to your best life. And what a life it can be!

In the decade since we wrote the Younger books, new scientific research has only underscored our fundamental message about exercise. A serious exercise program will keep you healthier, more engaged, and living younger for the rest of your life. Physical fitness reverses most of the inflammation of modern life—heart disease, stroke, diabetes, most of arthritis—all of the things that we associate with normal American aging. You become a much better version of yourself, at any age, and you become functionally younger. Not by months, or years, but by decades. A seventy-year-old man or woman who follows our program will have the aerobic capacity of a healthy forty-five-year-old. You really can live twenty-five years younger than your driver’s license says almost all the way through your life.

And your brain will get younger, too. Newer research has shown that there are enormous cognitive benefits of exercise. The data and individual biology vary, but when you are fit, you are 10 percent more cognitively efficient than when you are sedentary. Simply put, your brain does more, and it does it better. Interestingly, sleep does the same thing. So the fit, rested version of you is about 20 percent smarter than the tired, out-of-shape you. And that’s in addition to the health and longevity benefits of exercise. That’s why we think your best life is still waiting for you. With this book in your hands and sweating.

It’s often said, and accurately, that your brain is the most complex, sophisticated object in the known universe—100 billion neurons, each with up to 10,000 connections to other neurons—dwarfing the Internet in information flow and challenging scientists to develop entirely new branches of mathematics to try to understand it. The federal government recently funded the ten-year Brain Initiative to examine the connections and cross talk among all the areas of the brain because that’s where the vast majority of brain processing takes place. This new frontier of brain science is important because our brains work by synthesizing vast amounts of data from many sources. As you read this, your brain is primarily processing the visual information of the text. But it’s also keenly aware of your emotions, physical surroundings, internal chemistry, and your body’s position in space. It’s the fusion of these disparate inputs that creates our consciousness and consciousness rests on a base of physical information.

So what do you do to turn on this most complex object in the universe? Watch TV on the sofa? Putz around online? No. Your brain grows best when it is given challenges that involve many areas at once. And there are only three great challenges that are hard enough to keep the brain healthy and growing. True emotional engagement with others, cognitive and social engagement with tasks that matter, and exercise. Motion. Moving your body through space is unbelievably complicated. We take it for granted, but even simple movement requires the entire brain to coordinate body parts. Movement is at the heart of evolution, it’s key for improving our cognitive and emotional brains.

Let’s look at how exercise transforms your brain for the long haul. One study showed a 40 percent reduct…