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)

Excellent

One of the best all-around health books (for men especially) out there. He should write a follow up book called “Limbic Feast.”

Worth the commentary on low intensity cardio alone. High intensity exercise (or should say “high heart rate” exercise as most “interval training” popular today is exercise does not allow close to a full recovery between bouts) is what sells, but it’s low intensity cardio that really delivers and makes the higher intensity work worthwhile… and safe.

What’s missing from his longevity equation is the ATP-PC energy system, which is a footnote in the book. Power exercise as you get older (done safely of course), when the aerobic foundation is there, might be the real fountain of youth.

The nutritional info can use an update, too. Ornish is a dangerous quack. He’s mentioned once so fair to assume some of the influence. To be fair, trans fats were still being used heavily in processed goods when this was published.

Read the book. Re-read it. It’s the kind of book that can change your life.

Encouraging

The premise that we can control many aspects of the quality of the last third of our lives is very encouraging.

A book that could have been a podcast

Here's the theme dragged out into 7 hours: Exercise 6 days a week for at least 45 mins, volunteer for everything and don't eat junk. Narrator did a great job on the otherwise repetitive themes. Aimed mostly at men and those retired, or at least have a ton of extra time on their hands during the day to devote that much time to exercise. Also seems to contradict the latest theory on HIIT workouts (high intensity interval training). Recent research says it's the way to go (not each time though) but the book says it's "optional" and recommends the longer steady state workouts at approx. 65% of your HR. Overall the book gives solid advice.

Awesome!

I loved every minute of it! I listened almost seven hours straight. Sharing with my wife.

How to live longer and be healthy

The two narrators keep up the back and forth between jockular motivation and medical information. Works well and it got me motivated to walk,. etc. six days a week years ago.

Finally...Someone wrote us a guide book...

Excellent instruction guide for us Baby Boomers to travel through our third portion of our life...Most of us decay because we weren’t aware of the steps required to get younger and age gracefully...Great entertaining and laugh out loud book intertwined with knowledge and facts of what we are going through...

Practical Science - Very Motivating!

I am grateful to Crowley and Lodge for undertaking this project ... I learned a lot, and it has changed my life.

The explanations of why our bodies go into "winter-famine" mode on the typical American diet (and what to do about it); and how to signal your cells to grow rather than decay (thru 45 mins exercise 6x week for the rest of your life!) are fascinating. And motivating. Armed with this knowledge I now have no problem carving out an hour a day for aero or weights; before I wondered why I needed to do it. Harry is the kind doctor I wish I had. And Chris, well he's a character: self-absorbed, a little neurotic, amusing part of the time, but less than he thinks he is; in other words, a lot like me!

Highly recommended for anyone age 45+ who would prefer to stay young right up to age 100.

Great audio book and very motivating

I am 39 year old Male who always "planned" to do exercise but was never regular. Tried several new years resolutions to get me started.

This audio book is very motivating and so far I am exercising for last 8 weeks regularly for 6 days a week. I stronly recommend it. The audio part has its own advantages amd I doubt I would have been this much motivated if I had just read the book.

Best Audio Book on this Site

Well maybe that is a little bit strong, but this is a great book. The presentation of the audio book was oustanding also. I lost 75 lbs and feel great from doing many of the things recommended in this book. Once I found this audio book I was able to fine-tune what I was doing as far as exercise and diet. What they talk about works! Get this audio book and get a copy for those you care about.

Lots of filler to get to the point.

Work out with weights, do cardio and eat properly. That's the gist of the book. Narration is well-done.

Another plan:
1. Do cardio for 30 minutes and then upper body for 15 minutes on MWF.
2. Do cardio for 30 minutes and then lower body for 15 minutes on TueThurSat.
3. Rest on Sunday