Pushing the outer limits of physical exercise when a senior is having dramatic effects for our newly senior boomers. There's a excellent book on this subject that I recommend: Younger Next Year, by Crowley and Lodge. There's a version for men and another for women. For those of you who would rather get the quick synopsis, it says one hour of vigorous exercise, six days a week, makes every cell in the body say to every organ in the body, "Hey, I'm not dying, I'm living, growing." Sedentary life styles, you know the ones our children are living while playing video games inside after school rather than playing baseball and freeze tag outside, is making us age prematurely. Also, aging is really dying: just a nicer word. Another book that is a delightful read is what appears to be a children's good, but is NOT: Who Moved My Cheese?: An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life by Spencer Johnson and Kenneth Blanchard. That on is so short, I'll let you read the whole thing. It's a delightful book with a profound lesson.
Note: When I went back to this blog, I realized i hadn't posted to it since 2005. Wow! Where have I been, and what have I been doing? Well, that's okay. I'm back now.
I'll post more often...please feel free to comment and give feedback.
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