[KingofScotland]

It's amazing what a well needed shave can do to knock a few years off your age and have you looking fresher. Had one this morning and instaly looked better, combine this with a haircut and I'd look about 20 again.

[the chef]

stretch, and drink green tea daily. my mom never misses her morning yoga class and looks so much younger than her age. her colleagues all think that she is in her mid 40's when she is 64. she also drinks green tea instead of coffee every morning.

[Lemmo]

Keeping your hair short will help you look younger if you are thinning or going gray. Rogaine will buy you a few years as well.

If you tailor your workout and diet to have a lean, muscular build rather than the simian build of a gym rat of the paunchy look of a slop, this will also help you look younger. Tailored, properly fitting clothing is also important.

For your skin, apply glycolic lotion to your face once day.

[babelfish669]

(01-05-2012 12:48 AM)thegmanifesto Wrote:  

You can drink and smoke and be in great shape. And I look easily 10 years younger than I am (part genetics).

While I don't smoke cigarettes there is evidence that lifestyle matters given Japan has a higher rate of smoking than the US but a lower rate of lung cancer. I do enjoy a good cigar with a glass of Johnny Walker Blue on occasion.

Its amusing to watch an in shape smoker out walk an out of shape non smoker.

No matter if you smoke and drink or not, you have to eat right and exercise well. I'm skeptical about the arteries of those that just do the exercising part.

[thegmanifesto]

(01-06-2012 04:31 PM)babelfish669 Wrote:  

(01-05-2012 12:48 AM)thegmanifesto Wrote:  

You can drink and smoke and be in great shape. And I look easily 10 years younger than I am (part genetics).

While I don't smoke cigarettes there is evidence that lifestyle matters given Japan has a higher rate of smoking than the US but a lower rate of lung cancer. I do enjoy a good cigar with a glass of Johnny Walker Blue on occasion.

Its amusing to watch an in shape smoker out walk an out of shape non smoker.

No matter if you smoke and drink or not, you have to eat right and exercise well. I'm skeptical about the arteries of those that just do the exercising part.

Exactly.

Think about it. We have had a smoking ban across the board in California for 14 years.

If this really helped, shouldn't California be more healthy?

The place is gone down the tubes as far as health. The place is so much fatter than it was 14 years ago.

Shouldn't Californians be living way longer lives? They don't. They are probably shorter.

Shouldn't America (with all Californians on the team) be winning The World Cup?

Hell no. Spain did.

A place where they allowed smoking until last year.

Smoking is demonized because the bans are funded by big pharma.

Nothing more, nothing less.

[mofo]

Interesting

[iknowexactly]

(01-05-2012 03:23 PM)KingofScotland Wrote:  

Sunscreen! Why? I live in Scotland it's freezing here plus it makes my skin greasy. I am off to Thailand in 2 weeks though so will use sunscreen more often. I can't remember it ever making my skin look younger before though and I travel for about 6 months of the year in warm climates.

The keystone factor is alcohol. It fucks up everything if you are an anxious person who's spiraled down physically.
Some people are overdesigned and can tolerate a lot of alcohol for a long time, others just deteriorate quickly overall
like you may be doing. Seeing the other people who can seemingly drink a lot and feel fine may mislead you into thinking that is not an insane lifestyle for YOU.

Think of the chain of after-effects it causes:

1) Lowers immune response.-> poss. need more sleep to compensate

2) Disrupts sleep --> fatigue/Unwillingness to exercise/Makes depression worse

3) Gives temporary reduction in anxiety preventing you from dealing with worldview that makes you "stressed out" as you call it.

Drinking every night as you described is a biologically completely abnormal.

Some people can tolerate it when young, but your nervous system is so whacked if you're doing that your judgment is off about everything you do.

You're viewing life through a haze of alcohol. Your decisions about everything else may be colored by it until you make the decision to get it under control.

[kosko]

Diet, sleep, gym, stress.

Manage all four you will considerably slow down your aging process. Think of it as the "kid" approach think back to the last time in your life all four points we're in check... It was when you we're a child. Running around being active eating good (for the most part, or at least not it showing any damage), sleeping 8-10 hrs a day, no stress. Life was good then.

Manage all the key points and you will be strait, no point going for topical or cosmetic fixes hit it at the source.

[xmlenigma]

Meditation is great for stress release in addition to exercise.

[Jalouse]

(01-09-2012 09:25 AM)kosko Wrote:  

Diet, sleep, gym, stress.

Manage all four you will considerably slow down your aging process. Think of it as the "kid" approach think back to the last time in your life all four points we're in check... It was when you we're a child. Running around being active eating good (for the most part, or at least not it showing any damage), sleeping 8-10 hrs a day, no stress. Life was good then.

Manage all the key points and you will be strait, no point going for topical or cosmetic fixes hit it at the source.

Great points, I just saw a picture on Facebook a couple of days ago of a friend from high school. I was shocked, he's fat, has lost his hair and is dressed like a slob, he's basically turned into an old man.

[Pilgrim37]

Keep your weight down through balanced diet and keep physically active,regular medicals and don't fry yourself in the sun too much!

Rest is down to genetics.

[The Wire]

Quick answers are diet and sleep. Exercise is great and all but you can't out exercise your diet and you need to get diet and sleep locked down whereas I find a lot of people focus on exercise first.

[Giovonny]

(08-30-2014 04:24 PM)The Wire Wrote:  

whereas I find a lot of people focus on exercise first.

This is a great point!

Intense exercise without intense sleep is a recipe for exhaustion and added stress to the body.

Sometimes, the best ant-aging workout is just to go to bed early and sleep 9+ hours.

(08-30-2014 04:24 PM)The Wire Wrote:  

you can't out exercise your diet

Beautifully said!

Some people think that they can eat whatever they want and than just exercise it away.

The body doesn't always work like that.

Instead of putting bad stuff in your body and than trying to exercise it away, it's better to just not put it in your body in the first place.

Or, find a healthy substitute.

***

Here is a post I did on my "anti-aging routine".

[Stun]

(08-30-2014 05:22 PM)Giovonny Wrote:  

Intense exercise without intense sleep is a recipe for exhaustion and added stress to the body.

Sometimes, the best ant-aging workout is just to go to bed early and sleep 9+ hours.

This is the double-edged sword reality of being a weightlifter. I get a ton more poosy when I'm jacked, but the reality of it is you have to sleep 8+ hours per night.

If you don't get the sleep and the nutrition you do worse than someone who is just in average shape, because you look tired and they don't.

The one thing you can not do and still attract women when you're over 35, is look tire

[Rigsby]

(01-04-2012 01:56 PM)kerouac Wrote:  

Now that I've gotten back into exercising I'm realizing how fast a body can just turn into shit after not having been taken care of for a year or two.

I used to be very athletic, and in pretty decent shape, but that turned to shit when I got into drinking, partying, and lounging around, and now I'm going back to living a semi-healthy life again.

After the initial few weeks when I got into a routine at the gym my body felt really weird. When my upper body muscles began developing and I went on a run I felt like I was supporting an extra mass I wasn't used to anymore. It was a pretty great feeling, because it reminded me of a time (only two years prior) when this would have been a totally normal feeling.

Which got me to realize, if we don't take care of our bodies as we age, and don't develop routines to maintain our bodies, we can easily turn into the slow moving old guys who just don't have the energy to get around.

This is an especially important thing to realize when you're in your early-to-mid twenties when a lot of you guys who used to be really active in high school and college go out into the "real world" where physical activity is not always at your doorstep and you have to make an effort to get out and stay active.

So, I'm realizing this now, luckily still relatively early in my life, that I need to work on all aspects of my life, all the time. The moment I start getting lazy atrophy quickly begins to work its magic.

We have to work on ourselves throughout our lives. We have to fight laziness. We need to constantly stay in the youthful frame of mind where we are always learning, and building. Constant growth and movement is the real key to a happy life.

Yip. Stay on top of it like a motherfucker. Beat it down. When you think you got it beat, and it's cowering into submission, kick it some more. Hard. In the guts. Then do it one more time for luck.

It catches up quick on you. And an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

Of course, you are young. You just say 'allright grandad' that's ok - young thing, more for me when you fall to pieces.

It takes a lot of effort to become a man in his prime. For a man to become all he can be. You can't have one without the other. He needs his mental state, he needs his physical state. We could get esoteric and talk about bullshit like spirituality, and that is all good, but for now, mental and physical will see you through. Spiritual can come later.


Look after yourself. Even if you don't work out five days a week. Do NOT abuse alcohol or drugs. Do not live a high stress life with some kind of high rent bitch breaking your balls every five minutes - believe me - you will be better off being an alky in the park than taking this road.

Remain your own man. Be true to yourself. Like the Kipling poem - let all men count, but none too much!

Eat well. Take time to prepare your meal in the evening with fresh ingredients. It is cheaper, money wise, but more expensive time wise. This is where you should invest your time. It only takes half an hour when you know what you are doing. In fact, it becomes a good game. You will prepare sub bases of ingredients as you go along. Freeze them, re use them. All the time with every single meal, becoming stronger, maintaining the strength you have.

You will give up sugar, you won't binge on carbs.

Ok enough.

Exercise all you can. If you don't have a good lady to do the holy bench press, so what, work it motherfucker. Save it for another day.

I do very little of this my self, but you did ask. This is just my advice. I wish I could take a bit more of it myself. But for a friend that asks, these are my true words..

[Saweeep]

Sleep is more important that anything in my opinion.

The youngest looking people I know are all the ones who sleep 8-10 hours per night. Fuck what people say about oversleeping and getting more than 8 hours being bad for you.

Most days I just sleep till I wake up…surely that's the best way? It has to be or why else would it happen?

[Giovonny]

I want to remind everybody about a few often over looked aspects in health and aging..

Stress can age you.

Pressure can age you.

Anger can age you.

Inner turmoil can age you.

Unhappiness can age you.

Not having any fun can age you.

Living a life that you dont want can age you.

We should take steps to eliminate stress and anxiety from our lives. Peace of mind and inner tranquility are important for health and vitality. Don't hang on to negative emotions, try to "let go" of your anger and allow yourself to heal. Forgiveness of those who have wronged you is a great tool to relive unnecessary emotional baggage.

The sun can age you.

Lack of hydration can age you.

Stay in the shade and drink some water with lemon.

I also think its very important to have healthy and fulfilling relationships with friends and family. We all need love and support. Giving love and support is also good for us.

Think positive and ask for help if you need it.

[CrackerDaddy]

(01-04-2012 11:31 PM)Stitch Wrote:  

Best investment of my damn life was probably my olympic bar, set of weights, power cage, and jump rope. You ain't kidding when you say constant growth and movement is a key to a happy life. Between lifting and dancing, I'm looking and feeling better than I have in decades.

Like your regimen. I lift heavy three days a week and Latin dance two days a week or more. I've never felt better!