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About the Author

I would like to take this opportunity to introduce myself and invite you to join me on my journey for an enhanced quality of life and longevity through physical training and nutrition education. I am well qualified to help guide you on this journey as I have had over 30 years working in the Fitness Industry helping people of all ages improve their strength and fitness levels. I am currently the co-owner of two Fitness Centers in Northland New Zealand. Having a passion for strength training landed me onto the competition bodybuilding stage which continued for over 25 years. The highlight was winning a New Zealand National Bodybuilding Title My new goal is to start educating older people about the necessity of including an exercise program in their lives. The internet is a wonderful tool to be able to reach out to many people and help them start a journey that will change their lives. Carolyn Hansen

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I’ve Found the Fountain of Youth – Let Me Show You Too!

I've Found the Fountain of Youth - Let me Show You Too!

Slow Accelerated Aging and Reduce Your Risk of an Early

Death

Your body is the only possession you absolutely own - outright. There may be a few spare parts available nowadays - but no replacements. Castles, land, houses, cars, money, titles, lovers and sundry other seemingly indispensable possessions can be acquired, but they can be lost - they can be taken away from you. Only death can steal your body. Without a vital body all other possessions are rendered useless. You may ask yourself:

• “If this is really is the only body I’ve got how long do I want to keep it working?

• “Do I really want to remain young, physically and mentally sound with a strong body and mind?”

• “How long do I want to retain total mobility and thus independence?”

• “Is this something I have any say over or can do anything about?”

• “Am I prepared to invest some time into staying as young as possible for as long as possible?”

The world has been searching for the fountain of youth for centuries. Not only do we want to look younger and live longer, we want those extra years to be full of independence and vigor. We don’t just want to survive. We want to feel younger and be strong.

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We all live in an age that belongs to the young at heart. Life that is becoming extremely fast, day to day, also asks us to remain physically young. Young at heart, young in mind and young in your body has become the principle of survival. Yet our age increases with every day of our life. The fast pace of the world around us in fact makes us age faster. But, it is important to retain our youthful vigor, for it is only with young passion and energy that we can work towards success, enjoy a peaceful, healthy life and keep ourselves happy. Exercise: The Real Fountain of Youth Everyone is looking for the magic answer and quick fix, but most people ignore the good science that exists. We hold the key to our own fountain of youth that so many people are looking for - we just need to unlock the door. The secret is exercise. Physical strength and fitness is the key to health and longevity and is the closest thing to a ’magic bullet,’ to ensure longevity and a good quality of life. What Is the Accelerated Aging Syndrome? Most people in the so-called civilized nations are actually pursuing an accelerated aging program which leaves us feeling old and exhausted long before our time. It is best characterized by: an expanding waistline, shrinking muscles and fitness, decreased thinking power, worsening cholesterol profiles, rising blood pressure, more aches and pains, decreasing energy and an overall sense of fatigue. If you want to accelerate your aging process, and shorten your life, the way to do that is to do what most people are doing already: avoid physical exercise, eat a large percentage of your diet from fast foods and junk foods.

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Continue to consume large quantities of white flour and refined white sugar, and eat brand-name groceries sold in beautiful boxes, made with dirt-cheap ingredients that lack any nutritional content whatsoever, and of course, avoid supplementing with super foods and other nutritional supplements. So, lie on the couch, watch TV, drink beer and eat potato chips with all your spare time and the disabilities of aging will overtake you quicker than you could ever imagine. Use It or Lose It! - It happens as you sit at your desk, on your couch, or in your car. It happens as you stand in line, doing everyday tasks, or while sleeping. You have been losing muscle and gaining fat every day since sometime in your twenties. You are losing strength so gradually that you probably haven't noticed. But you will. As you get older, you may no longer be strong enough to run, go out dancing, or climb a flight of stairs. It will get more difficult to carry out the normal functions of daily living; even carrying groceries becomes a major chore. Eventually, just getting out of a chair could be a struggle. You see if you don’t use it (your body) you’re guaranteed to lose it – to disease, weakness, and injury. The typical sedentary adult loses 3 kilos of lean muscle tissue every 10 years between ages 20 and 70. The experts tell us that most of our muscle loss occurs because we stop doing active things that require muscle power, not because we age. Studies show 28% of men and 65% of women over age 74 cannot lift a 5 kilo object over their head.

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The gradual loss of muscle can start a vicious cycle as it weakens the body. It weakens the immune system, nerve cells, hormones and other chemicals. At the point where it becomes difficult to do a particular task, people will naturally shy away from that task. Therefore lack of activity will speed up muscle loss. Contributing to this is the fact that people from their mid-forties onwards spend 80 percent of their waking hours sitting down. What many adults overlook or are just not aware of is the importance of doing activities that challenge their muscles to get stronger. Loss of muscle mass is not something that only occurs in older adults. Even young adults lose muscle if it is not purposefully maintained. But it doesn't have to be that way. There's only one way to stop your muscles from wasting away: strength training. It doesn't matter if you're a 40-year-old runner or a 75-year-old retiree. If you don't build muscle, you'll lose muscle. Turn Back the Clock You can do more than just hope for a strong, mobile body as you age. It is possible to turn back the aging clock! The myth is that as we grow older we get much weaker and suffer more aches and pains. We've been told that losing muscle and gaining fat are just part of the natural aging process. The fact is that many of the symptoms of old age are really the symptoms of inactivity - of using our muscles less! Muscle weakness, bone loss, and sluggish metabolism are changes that accompany aging but are not solely caused by it. First and foremost - The body is a demand-driven, adaptable, living system that requires movement and muscular activity to maintain its function. Look what happens to someone bedridden in a hospital; muscle mass, flexibility, strength, bone density and range of motion drop in just a matter of days.

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The unseen effects are equally damaging; every organ reduces function and slows its activity. Lack of movement is devastating to the human body. Aging is very much like a longer version of being bedridden. Slowly, over decades, the same decreases in capability occur AND the antidote is the same: MOVEMENT Start moving and your ability to move will improve. Walk, run, dance, stretch, lift weights, play games that require physical motion and the losses due to aging will reverse. Along with this improved ability to move, many other changes take place. Blood sugar levels will regulate downward and remain more even, stored fat will be reduced, insulin sensitivity will improve, blood pressure will come down and your heart will get stronger. Your vascular system will actually start building collateral arteries around blocked vessels, improving blood flow to your heart and other organs. The body's repair mechanisms speed up, things heal faster, the immune system gets stronger; you get sick less often and you recover more quickly from virtually every malady. Not only would you feel younger, but you'd be physiologically younger on the inside too. What Happens if We Don’t Exercise? Before the age of physical maturity at about 25 years, bodies are continually growing and developing. During this phase, muscles grow stronger even without specific exercise. After we reach the age of 30, we basically have two options. We can either begin the long process of becoming weaker or we can work to maintain our strength.

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After this point, if the body does not receive the necessary stimulus to trigger muscle growth, a slow process of muscle atrophy or wasting begins. This loss of muscle tissue directly or indirectly causes the degenerative processes and conditions that characterize the aging process. Muscles become weaker and less enduring; bones become more susceptible to fracture; joints deteriorate; metabolism slows; fat stores accumulate; body shape and appearance change. This process accelerates beyond age sixty and many eventually become so weak and immobile that they lose their independence. By the time you are 60, you may have lost up to half your muscular strength, half your lung capacity and a good percentage of bone density. This leads to many age related ailments such as osteoporosis, diabetes, back pain and more. Recreational-type activities such as walking, tennis, etc, keep the heart and lungs somewhat conditioned, however, these kinds of activities cannot halt, let alone reverse muscle tissue loss. Strength training is the only viable way to address it. Anti-aging remedies and procedures are increasingly in high demand. While struggling against the ravages of aging before we complain too much we should remember getting older is a privilege denied to many. While this is definitely true, the privilege does not come without its challenges. Superficial changes may help one look and feel better, but aging graciously really requires enduring transformation that improves one’s physical health. The elusive fountain of youth is found in maintaining or rebuilding muscle strength.

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And if you do use it, especially if you strength train, you can easily become 100 to 175 percent stronger! No matter what your age (40, 65, 85 years old) you can gain strength and build muscle as fast as a 21 year old. How’s that for reclaiming your youth? Exercise can slow and even reverse many components of the aging process. It's probably the single most effective way to lengthen life. Proper exercise can rejuvenate you and take years off your chronological age - it's the closest thing to an anti-aging pill. In other words, exercise can add years to your life and life to your years. As we age things change; if your lifestyle has been sedentary chances are you have put weight on, lost muscle mass and have aches and pains more than likely caused from being out of shape. All this combined with poor nutritional habits and a 24/7 pace that most of us maintain only adds to the problem. Unfortunately our society wants everything made easy. They want to drop fat without eating right, get strong without effort, and be healthy while drinking and smoking and want it all yesterday. What they really want most is to be able to participate in activities and at levels of when they were much younger. In order to accomplish this certain behavior modifications or lifestyle changes must be made. Wearing glasses, hearing aids and dying one’s hair are effective methods of reversing the effects of aging, but the most effective thing we can do to reverse the aging process is to do regular strength training exercise. It is the most effective exercise in addressing the biomarkers that effect not only how young we look, but more importantly, how we young we feel. After exercising you change the chemical makeup of your blood for eight to 12 hours. So for a large majority of that day, you're regenerating cells and building a better body and brain.

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Each our bodies undergo many changes that can be reversed by proper strength training: Loss of Lean Tissue Mass Your muscles and internal organs are lean tissues. As we age we lose both muscle and internal organ weight. The largest loss of this tissue is from muscle mass which declines with age and with the rate of loss accelerating after age 45. If existing muscle is not exercised properly, an average of 3 kilos of muscle tissue will be lost every decade of adult life, reducing the capacity to function and slowing metabolism. The amount of muscle you have - and that you retain - is determined in part simply by how much you use your muscles. If you use your muscles frequently, you can maintain their strength. But if you push your muscles to the limits of their capacity by exercise, you can actually increase their strength no matter your age. Increase the demands on the muscular skeletal system, and as self-protection the body responds by maintaining stronger muscles and bones. The heart is a muscle and most people don’t realize they have diminished heart capacity until it’s too late – when they are in the emergency room after a heart attack. Muscles are the engine of our body where energy is released, power is produced, and where movement originates. Because the condition of our engine has a lot to do with the way we look, feel, and function, strong muscles are very advantageous. Well-conditioned muscles provide better support and shock absorption for the lower back, absorbing forces that might otherwise overstress the spinal column. Muscles have the plasticity that tendons and ligaments do not contributing to greater flexibility.

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People who age well, who seem to be far younger than their years, retain their lean tissue mass and have a longer life, fewer illnesses and better mental functioning. A well-conditioned sixty-year old is equivalent to a sedentary forty-year-old. Strength is not a luxury as we age. It is absolutely necessary for longevity and health. Increasing strength is now a PROVEN way to make the aging process turn around at the genetic level within the cell. Can you see why muscle loss is a major deal? Improve Circulation The heart is not the only muscle to pump the blood. Whenever any muscle contracts it squeezes blood towards the heart, and when it relaxes it fills with blood again exactly like the heart. Healthy, strong muscles not only take the burden off the heart, they actually support it. Metabolic Rate (BMR)This simply means the rate your body burns fuel - your metabolism - when you’re at rest (”basal,” as in “baseline”). As the engine of the body, our muscles burn fuel (calories). Like other essential measures, your BMR declines with age and you burn fewer calories when your body isn’t in motion. From about age 20 on, every decade that you age reduces the amount of calories you need to maintain a constant body weight by roughly 100 calories. So a typical 70-year-old needs 500 fewer daily calories than a 20-year-old.

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More muscle requires more calories. Those who are stronger can have the metabolism they had when they were twenty years younger. If you keep eating the way you did when you were 20 - or even 40 - you’ll put on excess body fat unless you start burning more calories. It can be a vicious cycle: too many calories, too little exertion, reduced musculature and a declining metabolic rate, all adding up to more body fat. That’s why you need the proper exercise program to increase your muscle, increase your metabolic rate thereby burning more calories and producing more energy. This is the secret to turning back the aging clock. Body Fat Percentage The average person’s problem is not excess weight as much as it is excess body fat coupled with too little muscle. Simply losing weight is the wrong goal; the key is changing your ratio of body fat (biologically inactive energy storage) to muscle (biologically active tissue). People with a greater ratio of muscle to fat enjoy a higher metabolism and don’t have to worry as much about gaining weight or about how much they eat - that active tissue burns more calories. Strength training increases both muscle mass and tissue activity, which produces an accelerated metabolic rate and higher daily energy expenditure. Even if your body weight hasn’t gone up that much as you’ve gotten older, you’ve probably gained fat. As your musculature shrinks, fat tissue accumulates. Since muscle tissue weighs more than body fat, that number on your bathroom scale can be deceiving. Instead of focusing on losing weight, concentrate on gaining muscle and shedding fat achieved through the right exercise program

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Aerobic Capacity How much oxygen can your body process within a given time? That’s your aerobic capacity, for which you need healthy lungs, a strong heart and an effective vascular network. Here’s another biomarker that naturally declines with age in most people: In both men and women, aerobic capacity at age 65 is typically 30-40% less than in young adults. But older people who exercise regularly lose less of their aerobic capacity. Bone Density With age, the mineral content of your bones declines, leaving you with a weaker, less dense, more brittle skeleton. On average, a person loses approximately I % of bone mass per year. When this loss reaches the point where your fracture risk is substantially higher, it’s called “osteoporosis,” a condition that can affect men as well as women. But osteoporosis isn’t an inevitable consequence of aging. Strong muscles lead to strong bones and increased bone mineral density. Strength training helps to maintain bone strength and can serve as an excellent preventive measure against osteoporosis. Blood Sugar Tolerance“Glucose tolerance” means your body’s ability to control blood sugar (glucose). Aging takes a toll on your ability to use this sugar from your bloodstream, though you probably don’t realize it - like hypertension, impaired glucose tolerance displays no symptoms. By age 70, some 30% of women and 20% of men have an abnormal glucose-tolerance curve, increasing their risk of developing type-2 diabetes. This creeping blood-sugar intolerance can be among the most devastating changes associated with aging.

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While aging is one factor in the changing of your glucose metabolism for the worse, so are three factors you can control:

• increased body fat • inactivity • a diet high in fat

A proper exercise program performed at the correct intensity enhances glucose metabolism and helps to decrease the likelihood of adult onset diabetes. Increased Susceptibility to Injury Muscle loss is also related to the onset of many bone diseases. The muscle tissue that holds our spine in alignment can deteriorate as we age and cause major back problems. The same is true for the muscle and tendons around the knee and hip joints. A stronger body is less likely to get injured. This might be the most important benefit. People wait until injuries occur and then exercise becomes problematic. To help avoid surgery the best thing you can do for your joints is to make the muscles supporting those joints stronger. Take the steps now to avoid herniated discs and hip and knee replacements. Strengthen Your Immune System and Reduce Your Risk of an Early Death You probably know that your immune system is responsible for detecting and fighting off infections. But did you know that it also detects and destroys cancer cells? That’s right, part of the immune system’s function is to locate and destroy tumor cells before they get out of control. Strength training can increase both the number and the amount of activity of several different types of immune cells – especially the ones whose primary jobs are to detect and destroy cancerous and virus-infected cells.

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When the heart rate is increased, this in turn helps remove germs and speeds the circulation of antibodies and white blood cells (natural killer cells) through the body. Research shows that white blood cell counts can increase by anywhere from 50 per cent to 300 percent after a vigorous exercise session. Strength training may be even more important for the immune system in another way: because it builds muscle. And muscle tissue is crucially important for immune function in two ways:

• Muscle is the primary site in the body where glutamine is formed. Glutamine is an amino acid that is used as a necessary fuel source by many cells of the immune system – without it, they cannot function.

• Building lean muscle tissue is the body’s only way of

storing protein. There is no other way for your body to build up a reserve of extra protein. And it is essential that you have this extra protein available when you get sick, because your body will draw on it to produce the new antibodies and white blood cells that you need to fight off an infection or find and attack cancerous cells. If you let your muscles shrink as you get older – and they will, if you don’t do strength training to maintain them – then you are losing your ability to create the cells you will need to fight off illness. This is one important reason why illnesses and injuries are often so much harder for older people to recover from: they have lost too much of their muscle, so they don’t have any reserve of protein to call on if they get sick or injured. In addition during a vigorous exercise session, the temporary elevation of body temperature may inhibit bacterial growth, allowing the body to fight the infection more effectively.

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Finally, exercise slows down the release of stress-related hormones, and stress hampers the immune system, increasing the chance of illness. Many people get sick when they feel stressed or depressed. The immune system slows down when stress hormones are released. Exercise helps reduce stress hormones and releases good hormones. Regular exercise also helps relieve stress directly, by providing an outlet for, and consuming much of, the nervous energy produced by stress. It also helps indirectly by shifting one's focus away from the external factors producing the stress. All of this will have a positive effect on the immune system by lessening the body's susceptibility to disease, while increasing the robustness of the immune system itself. So NEVER let yourself believe that muscles are just for looks. They are essential to the proper function of your immune system. They can save your life! And the only way to keep them as you get older is to keep strength training. Blood Pressure The importance of controlling your blood pressure should come as no surprise as elevated blood pressure is known as "the silent killer". What may surprise you is that an increase in blood pressure with age is not inevitable: Many populations around the world show no increase in blood pressure with age. You can defend yourself against or even treat high blood pressure or hypertension with a regular, vigorous exercise program that includes building and maintaining your strength at least 50% of the time.

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Improved Body Shape The body's shape is determined by bone structure and muscle-to-fat ratio. More muscle and less fat improve most people's physiques. Within genetic parameters muscle adds shape and firmness to the body giving your body a much younger and vital look. Muscle is youth! Exercise and our Mind Amazing as it might seem, physical exercise affects more than just our bodies. It also helps our minds. Our bodily organs are intricately interrelated. Everything inside us influences everything else. The state of our lungs determines the condition of our hearts. Our stomachs affect our intestines. Beyond that, our bodies can sway our minds. Perhaps you’ve heard about how our mental outlook or our level of stress can impact our physical health. Well, that’s a two-way street. Mind affects body. But body also affects mind. And regular exercise can improve the overall attitude of our minds. In fact, exercise has a variety of psychological effects that enhance physical health. It buffers against stress, is an effective treatment for anxiety, and according to some researchers, is as effective as psychotherapy in treating mild depression. Strength Training is a Simple Concept It is extremely important to understand that only strength training is capable of preventing age-related muscle loss. No other form of exercise or physical activity is adequate. Even very high levels of aerobic activity fail to stop muscle loss. An active lifestyle is not enough; however, becoming stronger will help you remain active for your entire life.

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Strengthening your muscles requires only one or two thirty-minute training sessions per week. A small investment of time and effort can pay huge dividends. Slow, controlled loading of your muscles with adequate resistance can rapidly rebuild strength and help you regain youthful vitality. Strength training is the real fountain of youth and can make old muscles new again right down to the genetic level. When you strength train, your muscles exert a force against some type of resistance to condition the muscular system. It involves briefly working your muscles, on a regular basis, a little more than they are accustomed to working. It doesn't matter if this resistance is from machines or free weights. Your muscles, tendons, ligaments and bones will respond by getting stronger. The amount of resistance a muscle has to work against determines how strong it gets. This strengthening will make your joints more stable and less prone to injury. Everyday tasks will become easier, such as picking up grocery bags or grandchildren, getting up from a low sofa or going up stairs. It's never too late to turn back the clock with this powerful age eraser. Strength training can improve the quality of your life at any age or condition. Traditionally it was thought that it was normal to get weak and feeble as one aged. We now know that this is not true - that inactivity is the culprit, not aging itself. But you are lucky - you have access to new research that wasn't available to the previous generations. It's important to embrace new information, even if it means tossing out familiar ideas.

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The most effective fitness programs consist of a strengthening component and a cardiovascular component. This combination works so well because it is the best way to change your body composition. Body composition, is a much more meaningful measure of health and well being than absolute body weight and is a measure of how much body fat you have in relation to how much muscle mass you have. Obviously you want to have less fat and more muscle. The key to good health is much more than battling the scale, you need good quality muscle mass. What Strength Training Isn’t Strength training is not running on a treadmill, riding a stationary bike, or using an elliptical machine. Although those types of aerobic machines use "resistance" to increase your workout intensity, it's not the same as strength training. Even regular aerobic exercise - which means contracting your muscles many times with little or no resistance - doesn't prevent loss of muscle mass. Runners still lose muscle mass even if they're highly active. Although walking is great exercise, it is not enough to maintain overall muscle mass and doesn't make people stronger, and many of us need to get stronger as we get older. Vigorous Exercise Can Really Roll Back the Years People are feeling younger and living longer with the desire to stay active and competitive in their later years. Tapping into the “fountain of youth” of exercise and nutritional strategies is your lifeline to continue this active lifestyle as well as preventing many age related diseases.

As little as six months of strength training will turn back one of the body's molecular clocks and rejuvenate ageing muscles to the extent that they are almost as powerful as those found in someone much younger.

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Your strength training routine must be regular and consistent for results to be noticeable. The most important thing to remember is that you are taking steps every day to reverse the damage of Father Time, so do not beat yourself up if you do not see immediate results. The end result of your strength and fitness program will be a total lifestyle change where you replace bad habits with healthy ones and feel the benefits that come with your positive choice. If you're not putting forth a serious effort in your strength training program at least twice a week, you're forfeiting approximately 300 - 500 grams of muscle per year. Without effort, your results will be minimal. If you want to transform your body to anything close to what it was 20 years ago you must work harder than you are used to in order to alter your physiology. Then and only then will you begin to see significant changes such as weight loss, stronger muscles, bones and joints, lower blood pressure and improved cholesterol profile. Research has shown that you need to add aerobic activity 3-5 days per week for at least 30-60 minutes to succeed with not just weight control, but also to rev up your anti-aging enzymes that keep you young and fit. We’re all looking to turn back, or at least slow down, the clock - to feel young and function youthfully regardless of our actual age. Building and maintaining strong muscles is one of the most effective ways to do so. And the formula for strong muscles couldn’t be simpler: strength training for life.

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If you risk losing your health and mobility as you get older, you risk losing your independence – and thus your dignity and all other possessions will be rendered irrelevant. Strength training will ensure this will never happen to you. In many ways, an active lifestyle is like money in the bank since it reduces medical costs, minimizes the need for long-term care and eliminates future burdens on family, friends and society. The greatest return is having the vigor, energy and independence to pursue every moment to the fullest. Consider the sobering alternative….health, mobility, independence, self esteem - dwindling away like an aging engine that has lost its power and strength. You can turn the clock back - or at the very least slow it down - in many areas of your health and well being. Are you ready to fight the effects of aging, every step of the way?

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Note from the Author We the Baby Boomer generation, born between the ages of 1946 and 1964 are the largest population group in history making up 25% of the population. We have always been the generation to watch, since our adolescence we have collectively rebelled against tradition, have made up our own rules and placed our unique stamp on world culture. We are hard working, have high standards and in the past century have fueled the greatest economic expansion in the history of the world. As we are now moving through our 40’s, 50’s and 60’s we are now faced with the fact that we are growing older. We have seen our elderly parents suffer, and we want to avoid getting old but we will not become cowards in the face of aging. We want to look good, and we want to feel good. And “good” means “young”. To meet this aim we are most interested in health and fitness as we are aware it will help us stay young. We will be different from our parents and grandparents, well for starters we won’t tolerate being called “elderly” and have no intention “slowing down” or “growing old gracefully” we intent to remain active, involved and vibrant throughout our entire lifespan. We will stay true to our generation's legacy, and will once again set trends - by redefining what it means to get - and be -“old.” The experts tell us we can expect to live well into our 90’s and beyond. We can even set our sights of living to be 120 as it has been proven that we are quite capable of this. Aging is not for sissies, so we will be the perfect generation to lead the way and can be expected to redefine health and fitness expectations for people in our age range. But attaining longevity is good only if we can maintain our strength, mobility and independence. Having to suffer through life is not the same as living a healthy long life. The road to 100 years is not predestined. You will not be freely given 100 years or more; you will have to earn those extra years.

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In this new millennium we boomers will fuel a revolution, a revolution in how society views aging. Instead of sitting on a chair aging quietly, watching life go by boomers will expect to meet life’s challenges head on, becoming stronger and more powerful through strength training exercise. In addition to enhancing our own health and quality of life, we boomers again have the chance to help the next generation by setting an example of a new, active view of the aging lifestyle. Now, with this extra time we can set our sights high – on a lower golf handicap, a ranking at the local tennis club or a faster downhill run on the ski field. We can start a second or third career, learn new hobbies or travel. You can start building and regaining strength at any age. So if it has been a while since you've worked on your strength, don't worry. Research shows that even people who begin strength training in their 90s can gain muscle and strength in as few as eight weeks. You don't have to lose your strength or muscle tone just because you are getting older. As long as you continue working your muscles, they will continue working for you, by keeping you strong, fit, and independent. Baby Boomers and exercise do mix - the outcome is an improved quality of life that you could scarcely imagine. Be a part of the growing group who say - "We are fitness motivated baby boomers and exercise program development begins with our positive mental attitude". By submitting your name and email address when you received this free report you will be on the Over 50 Looking 30 free subscriber list to receive periodic newsletters, tips, strategies and new products that can help you speed along on your personal journey to rejuvenation, strength, youthfulness, health and longevity. Carolyn Hansen

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