Aerobics does the most to keep you alive. But weight training is the single best thing to make you feel good and have fun. Here's why. You think your body wears out, like a car. So many revolutions, so much scraping away at the cylinder walls and your done. But that's not true. It is not a machine...it is a living organism.... Read more
There's a lot of great news in the Younger Next Year books and in these blogs. Lots of it. But there are some things that - at first blush - sound simply dreadful. And one of them is this: If your life after fifty is going to worth a ****, you are going to have to work out with big, heavy nasty weights, two times a week. Three would... Read more
Here's some more good news: of all the things we recommend that you do to make yourself Younger Next Year, I think that doing aerobic exercise is the easiest. Not on day one, maybe. On day one, it's all hell and there's nothing to be done about it. But after you do it for a couple of weeks, I predict you'll think of your four... Read more
There are strong, early indications that aerobic exercise - while it's saving you from those pesky heart attacks and strokes and stuff - is also cheering you up. A lot. Doctors at Duke have been studying depression for a long time. Just recently they did a test of exercise, antidepressant drugs and a placebo, to see what effect they... Read more
The knowledge of the reason aerobic exercise is so important has only developed recently. And here's the weird thing: when you get your heart rate up to, say, fifty-five or sixty percent of your maximum heart-rate (when you start to sweat and are breathing a bit hard), you actually change your blood chemistry. Your blood becomes slightly... Read more
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