Younger Next Year

A Guide to Living Like 50 Until You're 80 and Beyond

By: Chris Crowley, Henry S. Lodge M.D.

Narrated by: Don Leslie, Rick Adamson

Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins

Publisher's summary

Younger Next Year is about how to turn back your biological clock. How to become functionally younger every year for the next five to 10 years, and continue to live with vitality and grace into your 80s and beyond.

Harry's Rules (Harry being Harry S. Lodge, M.D.) are only seven, but they completely reverse the typical path of aging. Exercise six days a week for the rest of your life. Quit eating crap. Connect and commit. And to prove it is his star patient, the no-punches-pulled Chris Crowley, a 70-year-old who left the slippery slope of retirement and turned his life around. Harry tells you what to do. Chris tells you how. And their argument is irresistible.

You're a guy. You have responsibilities. You think about the future, the 401K, the kids' schools. There's one other thing you can't afford not to think about: yourself. Marrying science and reality, Younger Next Year is a convincing and passionate argument that if you train for the Next Third of life, you'll have a ball. Follow its simple rules and you'll find yourself in perhaps the best shape, in mind, body, and spirit, of your life.

©2004 Chris Crowley and Henry S. Lodge, M.D. (P)2004 HighBridge Company

Critic reviews

• 2005 Audie Award Nominee, Personal Development/Motivational

"Brain-rattling, irresistible, hilarious. If you're up for it...it could change your life." (The Washington Post)
"Younger Next Year is a wiscracking but scientifically serious guide to health." (Newsweek)

A good book

I good reminder of why it is smart to care for yourself.

A must read book for anyone 50 or older!

If you want to increase your health span as well as your lifespan then read this book!
It’s humorous and full of science explained in an easy to understand way!
This book will be your inspiration and launching pad into a wonderful third act!

A fairly inspirational book.

If you could sum up Younger Next Year in three words, what would they be?

Most of the steps to getting in shape and changing your life seem to be logical. There are a few times the book strayed off into self-indulgent stories about ski trips which I did not find in the least bit interesting or beneficial. But the good definitely outweighs the bad, and I will re-listen to this audiobook again and then go back to certain chapters when needed.

Loved this

as a fifty-three-year-old I am certainly feeling my age catching up to me a little bit. This book has shown me that I don't need to feel that way, and there is hope for a better future.

Don't pass this one up

I absolutely loved it! I read everything I can get my hands on about health and this one really got me excited about the real benefits of exercise. I liked the fact that both authors spoke and explain stuff.

Entertaining and Informative

The book is loaded with information and a lot of laughs as well. This is not just medical. It is great health and lifestyle coaching.

Compelling logic for exercise

One of the best books on fitness and health I've read. The authors discuss why we grow and why we decay -- has a lot to do with our precarious life on the open savanah in Africa. Exercise signals our primitive brain that it is time for the hunt -- build bone, build muscle, build circulatory capacity, get ready for action. Inactivity tells our primitive brain that winter is upon us -- slow down, eat a lot, shut down unnecessary functions, etc. So in evolutionary terms, our modern, sedentary life is constant "winter." The book is full of practical advice and is entertaining -- I think the combo of patient/physician is a great one.

Bill Yarberry, Houston, Texas

started me on the right road

I am 41 years old and I absolutly loved this book. I have purchased 3 print copies which I have given away to friends (this is NOT someting I am prone to do) and they have all enjoyed it as well. I think the book is very well written and well read - I enjoyed both voices - although the person reading Chris's part does go over the top now and then. Remember, this is a book written in a "man to man" style - women - don't complain if it does not speak your language! Take a look at "younger next year for women" instead.

Younger Next Year

This is a great read, both entertaining and informative. The reader's voice is pleasant and provides humor.

Younger Next Year

Very informative and entertaining !!! I really enjoyed this book and will follow the program it suggests.