Reddit reviews Younger Next Year: Live Strong, Fit, and Sexy - Until You're 80 and Beyond
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Great product!
Don't accept this. You could live another 30+ years. Do you want to feel like crap the whole time?
I did a 12 step program for 16 years. I was lucky in that my home group, and the other groups I attended, had mostly people who encouraged me to have a higher power of my own understanding. They didn't give a rat's ass if they understood, only that I understood. And yes there were a few religious fundies that I stayed away from.
Year one I didn't have a higher power. I had no religious beliefs then, as I still have no religious beliefs today. One person who is still a friend today said that his higher power was nature and the collective wisdom of the 12 step program. That was kool. He said those were two powers that he knew of that were more powerful than he was.
I eventually came to see "working the program" as my higher power. When I worked the program, my life got better. Here's an analogy I came up with:
I need to change a broken light switch on the wall. I try to use my finger to get the screws unscrewed on the wall plate. I can't. I then try to use my finger nails and I can't. I then get a screw driver from the garage and unscrew those two little screws. For that specific purpose, that screw driver was my higher power. It did for me what I could not do for myself.
I saw my 12 step program the same way. Working the program was doing for me what I could not do for myself.
One day I realized that that screw driver has no power. It is only a tool. I give it power by picking it up and using it to unscrew a screw. My 12 step program was the same thing. It is a tool that I used to help me improve the quality of my life.
Today I live knowing there is no power in my life other than me. I am the great "I am" in my life. Peace, freedom, ease, sanity, and serenity. It all comes from me. As does the other side of that coin.
I am a very grateful former member of a wonderful 12 step program.
And by the way, I have been exercising 5 to 6 days a week for the last 2 years and eating far less processed foods and sugars than ever before. Here's a book that shook the fat on my body like a 7 on the Richter scale shaking the Golden Gate bridge.
Alcoholism is a three-fold disease, and often the mental and spiritual parts are stressed while the physical part is neglected. Doing so, IMO, makes for an incomplete recovery. How serene and happy can you be if you're morbidly obese and constantly plagued with physical problems?
You sound a lot like me: I write for a living, I like to spend a lot of time on the computer, and I've got a bum knee (long story). I first started running when I was 26, a few months after I got in the program, and I did that for years. Now I go to the gym to lift at least four days a week for 90 minutes or more and I also take martial arts classes twice a week.
One thing about exercise is that, like sobriety, it helps to get obsessed with it--read about it, do research, plan little three-month programs with goals. I don't know how old you are (I'm 62), but I know I need to keep moving if I'm going to keep my mobility in the future. One of the guaranteed problems you'll have if you spend a lot of time sitting is shortened hamstrings, weak abs, and resulting low back pain. Here's a post from fittit that tells you how to fix that.
For motivation, I subscribe to /r/fitness, /r/weightroom, and /r/bodybuilding. A great book I recently read that lit a fire under my ass is Younger Next Year.
> Been flossing every other day + mouthwash + brushing teeth 3x a day
Floss daily, brush 2x a day preferably with an electric brush, use an anti gingivitis rinse. Don't clench or grind your teeth, wear a mouthguard at night if you do. See a dentist twice a year.
For exercise you're doing a lot of aerobic and strength, you need balance and flexibility. yoga is good for that, or a stretching program. that will help with the neck pain too. yoga often incorporates meditation.
It's very time consuming (takes decades) to become a millionaire by working for someone else. you need to go into business for yourself if you want to make it by age 30. And no guarantees there. And you definitely won't make it to million any time soon as an engineer. But engineering is awesome.
For everybody: Read younger Next year, they also have a book of exercises.
I'd like to recommend a book 'Younger next year' - its aimed at peoples your dads age and gives you simple ways to get fit and lose weight. The great thing is that its positive and non threatening and aimed at guys who just want some simple, but scientifically backed rules. The book consists of alternate chapters - one by a guy who's actually done it, and then an expert talking about the science behind the recommendations.
An older guy I worked with, (who we used to call the donut king) lost a ton of weight and buffed up and I asked him what his secret was and he told me about the book. That was two years ago and this christmas my sister told me I look the best I've ever looked. I've since recommended it to other male friends and they have also raved about it. You can read the reviews on amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/Younger-Next-Year-Strong-Beyond/dp/076114773X
I recommend "Younger Next Year" by Chris Crowley & Dr Henry Lodge. Chris is a freaking fit 73 year old man who tells you in a breezy and chatty style how he began his journey of health and fitness. The science is explained by his co-author, Dr Henry Lodge. The sections on attitude and motivation are provided by Chris himself.
Here's a link to the paperback:
http://www.amazon.com/Younger-Next-Year-Strong-Beyond/dp/076114773X
You might also consider getting him the audiobook version.
I wish your dad success on his own journey to better health.