Smart women don’t grow older. They grow younger. A book of hope, Younger Next Year for Women shows you how to become functionally younger for the next five to ten years, and continue to live thereafter with newfound vitality. Learn how the Younger Next Year plan of following “Harry’s Rules”—a program of exercise, diet, and maintaining emotional connections—will not only help you turn back your physical biological clock, but will improve memory, cognition, mood, and more. In two new chapters, prominent neurologist Allan Hamilton explains how the program directly affects your brain—all the way down to the cellular level—while Chris Crowley, in his inimitable voice, gives the personal side of the story. In other words, how to live brilliantly for the three decades or more after menopause. The results will be amazing.

Younger Next Year Exercise Program combines the best information from the New York Times bestselling Younger Next Year with the cutting-edge workouts from Thinner This Year. The book printed in a user-friendly format perfectly sized to throw into a gym bag includes Dr. Harry Lodge's science behind the benefits, and lots of passionate encouragement from Chris Crowley. Here is the 10-minute warm-up (critical for maintaining ankle, shoulder, and hip mobility). The five amazing things aerobic exercise will do for your body, and finding the method that works for you. How to get fit better and more quickly with intervals, and the importance of "whole-body" strength training. Plus, the Twenty-Five Sacred Exercises that will be the foundation for your strength-training routine for life, including "Why Bother?" for each and easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions and illustrations.

People are serious now. They're going to the gym and changing their diets. Hundreds of thousands of people are working on turning back their biological clocks, doing the exercise that can put off up to 70% of the typical decay associated with aging and eliminate 50% of the illnesses that afflict people as they get older.
Now, to make that promise even easier to achieve, comes the "Younger Next Year Journal." This is a needed recordkeeper for every trip to the gym, or better yet, bike vacation or ski trip. Beginning with a short introduction to working out the "Younger Next Year" way--how to use a heart rate monitor, why keeping a journal is important, how to look at exercise as your new job--here is a 224-page fill-in book with prompts that help you keep meticulous track of your workouts, your heart rate, your diet, how you feel, how you've reached out to others, and more. In addition, the journal is filled with motivational tips from Chris Crowley--don't skimp on leg weights, treat yourself to the best equipment, how to get your Significant Other to work out with you--and medical Q&A's from Dr. Henry Lodge, covering the science of aging, low-fat diets, and more.

Congratulations, you are about to get younger! Dr. Henry Lodge provides the science. Chris Crowley provides the motivation. And through their New York Times bestselling program, you'll discover how to put off 70 percent of the normal problems of aging--weakness, sore joints, bad balance--and eliminate 50 percent of serious illness and injury. Plus, prominent neurologist Allan Hamilton now explains how following "Harry's Rules" for diet, exercise, and staying emotionally connected directly affects your brain--all the way down to the cellular level. The message is simple: Learn to train for the next third of your life, and you'll have a ball.