Younger Next Year Quotes

“optimism. Lean, fit, happy, optimistic, energetic, brimming with vim and vigor: these”
― Chris Crowley, Younger Next Year: Live Strong, Fit, and Sexy - Until You're 80 and Beyond

“For those who are given to excess, abstinence is easier than moderation.”
― Chris Crowley, Younger Next Year: A Guide to Living Like 50 Until You're 80 and Beyond

“The keys to overriding the decay code are daily exercise, emotional commitment, reasonable nutrition and a real engagement with living. But it starts with exercise.”
― Chris Crowley, Younger Next Year: Live Strong, Fit, and Sexy - Until You're 80 and Beyond

“For those who are given to excess, abstinence is easier than moderation.”—John Drybred.”
― Chris Crowley, Younger Next Year: A Guide to Living Like 50 Until You're 80 and Beyond

“Aerobic exercise is primarily about your muscles’ ability to endure. Strength training is primarily about your muscles’ ability to deliver power, which, surprisingly, has as much to do with a special form of neural coordination as actual strength. That’s a critical point. Strength training causes muscle growth, and that’s important, but it’s the hidden increase in coordination that changes your physical life. This is not eye-hand coordination;”
― Chris Crowley, Younger Next Year: Live Strong, Fit, and Sexy - Until You're 80 and Beyond

“A lot of people unconsciously assume that they will get-old-and-die: one phrase, almost one word, and certainly one seamless concept. That when they get old and infirm, they will die soon after, so a deteriorating quality of life does not matter. That is a deeply mistaken idea and a dangerous premise for planning your life. In fact, you will probably get-old-and-live. You can get decrepit, if you like, but you are not likely to die; you are likely to live like that for a long, long time. Most Americans today will live into their mid-eighties, whether they’re in great shape or shuffling around on walkers. And that number is rising over time, too, so you may well live into your nineties, whether you like it or not. Which is good reason to make the Last Third of your life terrific—and not a dreary panoply of obesity, sore joints, and apathy.”
― Chris Crowley, Younger Next Year: A Guide to Living Like 50 Until You're 80 and Beyond

“Warm up, of course; that never changes. Then up to 60–65 percent of your max for five or ten minutes. Then crank it up to 70–75 percent and hold at that level for five or ten minutes. Feel your way. That’s intense enough for your high-endurance work in the early stages and maybe forever. Then back down for recovery at 60–65 percent.”
― Chris Crowley, Younger Next Year: A Guide to Living Like 50 Until You're 80 and Beyond

“Bill Fabrocini in The Younger Next Year Exercise Book or Thinner This Year.”
― Chris Crowley, Younger Next Year: A Guide to Living Like 50 Until You're 80 and Beyond

“How you live, and how you think about it, is a big part of how your life goes, so there is a real premium on having positive emotions. The good news is, you can get them by consciously creating positive environments. You can do that by deliberately driving away the modern versions of lions and tigers . . . stress, loneliness and idle worry about status. By reaching out to good stimuli: exercise, decent sleep, rational diet, love and play. Happiness comes primarily from connection, from giving and getting love and friendship, and that’s hard, though deeply satisfying work. Connect and commit, in other words, to generate positive emotions and drive away despair.”
― Chris Crowley, Younger Next Year: Live Strong, Fit, and Sexy - Until You're 80 and Beyond

“Understandably, our Darwinian bodies and primitive brains are not going to catch up with this astonishing state of affairs. We live, in this new safety, in this new time of plenty, like drunken sailors freshly delivered from terrible peril.”
― Chris Crowley, Younger Next Year: Live Strong, Fit, and Sexy - Until You're 80 and Beyond

“And not much around in this society, with its nutty insistence on the nuclear family and faceless cities and no roots, to take up the slack. We should change the way we’ve organized society so that we make better use of the Next Third of our lives. We should foster commitments and communities that will last a lifetime, and I believe we will. Because it’s so obvious. But not in time for you. American society has been rushing down this weird, atomizing, isolating track for a hundred years now—making us into rounder, smoother pieces for the global economy we’re all so nuts about—and it’s not going to stop on a dime, even though it should.”
― Chris Crowley, Younger Next Year: Live Strong, Fit, and Sexy - Until You're 80 and Beyond

“I was with Hilary’s pal Lois, because Hilary hasn’t been able to ski this stuff ever since she broke her neck (not doing exercise!) seven years ago. She’s fine, but she can’t do this. Lois, forty-four, has an excellent job, an excellent husband and two fine children, but not that morning. That morning, it was his turn to stay home with the kids, and, for her, “Powder Rules Apply.” That’s the sign they put up in shop windows when they lock the door and head for the mountain. All bets are off, and appointments will not be kept. Ecstasy trumps care. Lois”
― Chris Crowley, Younger Next Year: Live Strong, Fit, and Sexy - Until You're 80 and Beyond

“Harry’s Seventh Rule: Connect and commit.”
― Chris Crowley, Younger Next Year: Live Strong, Fit, and Sexy - Until You're 80 and Beyond

“Harry’s Sixth Rule. Harry’s Sixth Rule reads, in its entirety: Care. Care”
― Chris Crowley, Younger Next Year: Live Strong, Fit, and Sexy - Until You're 80 and Beyond

“Your body reads idleness as a sign that you are starving to death as slowly as possible, no matter how much you eat. Exercise”
― Chris Crowley, Younger Next Year: Live Strong, Fit, and Sexy - Until You're 80 and Beyond

“It goes on and on. Studies showing that the lonely are twice as likely to have ulcers. Studies showing that unmarried men are two or even three times as likely to die of heart attacks as their married brethren. One of the great questions, it turns out is: Does your wife show you her love? If the answer is yes, you’re in much better shape. So tell your partner you love her. Ask her to give you a pat, and you give her one. You both need it. You show me yours, I’ll show you mine.”
― Chris Crowley, Younger Next Year: Live Strong, Fit, and Sexy - Until You're 80 and Beyond

“You need to reconnect directly to your physical brain. You’ve shut it in the closet long enough. After days at the office, nights in front of the TV, this miracle machine is waiting for you to take it out for a spin. To not do this is a dangerous waste. Because there is also a dark side; there is also decay. Life is energy. That’s all that matters to nature. For 3,500 million years, life has walked a”
― Chris Crowley, Younger Next Year: Live Strong, Fit, and Sexy - Until You're 80 and Beyond