Want to avoid rotting? Then don't NOT exercise!

I've come across a really interesting book titled "Younger Next Year: Live Strong, Fit and Sexy Until You're 80 and Beyond."

The book is by Chris Crowley and Dr. Russ Greenfield--two folks recently interviewed on WFAE 90.7 FM radio station in Charlotte.

To hear the podcast of their interview, click on this link and then scroll down to the "Younger Next Year" show that was rebroadcast on Sept. 2, 2010. Listen to the podcast by clicking on the "Listen" icon in the gray bar.

The authors assert that while exercise cannot guarantee that our life will be extended, it can make the quality of our life radically different.

They stress that if we’ll quit eating crap and that if we exercise six days a week, we’ll optimize our day-to-day living and we’ll feel better and stronger.

They refer to it as feeling “functionally younger.”

And again, while exercise or anything else that we do CANNOT reverse the process of aging, it can limit age-related disease and age-related decline.

Exercise—again SIX DAYS A WEEK—is a key means to overcome the signal inside your body that says you should be starting to die.

That’s because, according to these two authors, our bodies want us dead. Our bodies are sinister. They want to start decaying.

Every year, according to the authors of this book, we get a little slower, a little fatter, a little less sexual, and not as quick or sharp in our mind as we used to be. Plus our muscle mass and coordination declines a little bit every year.

Exercise helps really slow that process down. It changes our blood chemistry and helps us age optimally well.

Age is not something we can avoid, but decay IS something we can avoid.

No excuse, ladies and gentlemen, for any of us NOT to exercise on a regular basis if we truly want to feel better and act better physically and mentally.

I'm on my way to the West (fitness and wellness) Center right now!