Younger Next Year for Women Quotes

“Remember, aerobic exercise saves your life; strength training makes it worth living.”
― Chris Crowley, Younger Next Year for Women: Live Strong, Fit, and Sexy - Until You're 80 and Beyond

“These are big, fat women who have to take a deep breath in the middle of each sentence. Hopelessly puff-faced pudgies who obviously couldn’t run a step. Women in such hideously bad shape, it’s scary. They all tell me that they agree entirely about exercise and are already hard at it. Well, that is nonsense! Outrageous nonsense! Please, please, please, whatever you tell me, whatever you tell Old Fred, whatever you tell your God . . . quit lying to yourself! You are not doing anywhere near enough if you’re fat as butter. If you’re short of breath. If you look like hell. Do not lie! You are getting in your own way.”
― Chris Crowley, Younger Next Year for Women: Live Strong, Fit, and Sexy - Until You're 80 and Beyond

“Remember, without your input, your body will constantly misinterpret the signals of today’s world. It will trigger the “default to decay” setting. You’ll start to deteriorate, to die”
― Chris Crowley, Younger Next Year for Women: Live Strong, Fit, Sexy, and Smart—Until You're 80 and Beyond

“So how do we keep ourselves from decaying? By changing the signals we send to our bodies. 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 for Women: Live Strong, Fit, Sexy, and Smart—Until You're 80 and Beyond

“Biologists now believe that most cells in your body are designed to fall apart after relatively short life spans, partly to let you adapt to new circumstances and partly because older cells tend to get cancer, making immortal cells not such a great idea.”
― Chris Crowley, Younger Next Year for Women: Live Strong, Fit, and Sexy - Until You're 80 and Beyond

“The muscle cells in your thigh are completely replaced, one at a time, day and night, about every four months. Brand-new muscles, three times a year. The solid leg you’ve stood on so securely since childhood is mostly new since last summer. Your blood cells are replaced every three months, your platelets every ten days, your bones every couple of years. Your taste buds”
― Chris Crowley, Younger Next Year for Women: Live Strong, Fit, and Sexy - Until You're 80 and Beyond

“We used it every winter, and in every time of drought or famine. We survived by getting depressed. Not clinically depressed, or Prozac depressed, but survival depressed, as in let’s slow down the metabolism, build up the fat stores, withdraw, turn inward, hibernate, cut everything back to bare minimum. Shut down and survive by letting all but the most critical systems atrophy and decay. In fact, all chronic stress works the same way.”
― Chris Crowley, Younger Next Year for Women: Live Strong, Fit, and Sexy - Until You're 80 and Beyond

“Biologically, there is no such thing as retirement, or even aging. There is only growth or decay. And your body looks to you to choose between them.”
― Chris Crowley, Younger Next Year for Women: Live Strong, Fit, and Sexy - Until You're 80 and Beyond

“The price of fitness is eternal vigilance, and the greatest spur to diligence is the daily log.”
― Chris Crowley, Younger Next Year for Women: Live Strong, Fit, and Sexy - Until You're 80 and Beyond

“research has shown that we have a remarkable ability to think and feel our way into happier or more depressed states, regardless of external reality, and you can train yourself to live in either an optimistic or a pessimistic frame of mind regardless of your external circumstances.”
― Chris Crowley, Younger Next Year for Women: Live Strong, Fit, and Sexy - Until You're 80 and Beyond

“Thing is, you need to do something every day to tell your body it’s springtime.”
― Chris Crowley, Younger Next Year for Women: Live Strong, Fit, and Sexy - Until You're 80 and Beyond

“You’re a grown-up, right? Then don’t be a dope. The gadgets, or the weights, do not do the work. You do. Okay, go to a decent gym and hire the nicest, smartest man or woman you can find.”
― Chris Crowley, Younger Next Year for Women: Live Strong, Fit, and Sexy - Until You're 80 and Beyond