Introduction

Florida’s Sue Ellen Trapp ran 234 miles – setting an open World Record for women in the 48-Hour Endurance Run – at age 51!

You are about to learn three easy steps to become a younger, more vibrant you. The truth is: You can enjoy being biologically years or even decades younger than your chronological age. Age Blasters is the revolutionary 3-Step Program for slowing and reversing the aging process so you can bask in looking, feeling, and growing younger.

First, let me put your mind at ease. This is not a book filled with the author’s ideas of what you should and shouldn’t do. You’re not going to be inundated with lectures about what you should or shouldn’t eat; how much exercise and which exercise you should or shouldn’t do; or what you should or shouldn’t think. Frankly, none of this is any of the author’s business!

Age Blasters is all about what you CAN do -- if you so choose. And:

♦ You CAN look and feel younger than you have in years
♦ You CAN have more energy, more stamina than you’ve had in decades
♦ You CAN significantly slow or even reverse aging for a more enjoyable life experience

How Do We Really Feel About Aging?

It is not unusual to be lulled to sleep by the gradualness of aging. Many would tell you that they are okay with aging. Maybe you’re one of those who think that they have made peace with it, so to speak; or have you? Let’s do a little experiment to see just how okay you really are with aging. What if for some reason, whatever it is, you woke up tomorrow morning and you looked and felt 20 years older than you did when you first woke up this morning. Some of you are thinking, “I couldn’t look or feel any older than I did when I first woke up this morning!” Be that as it may, tomorrow morning you wake up and look in the mirror and staring back is:

♦ You with the wrinkles of a 20-years-older version of you
♦ You with the sagging, baggy skin of a 20-years-older you
♦ You with the balding, thinning hair of a 20-years-older you
♦ You with the added girth of a 20-years-older you
♦ You feeling the exhaustion and tiredness of a 20-years-older you

I’m betting that this would get your day off to a bad start. It might even ruin your whole day. What do you think?

Continuing with our little experiment, what if tomorrow you saw in the mirror the youthful you of 20 years ago, with all the energy and enthusiasm for life that you had back then, staring back at you? You’d have a smile plastered on your face all day long, to the point that folks around you would be wondering what you’d been up to.

We all care more about the aging process than we let on -- even to ourselves. We would all like to stay younger if we could.

20 Years of Aging Takes 20 Years?

Logically speaking, with every passage of 20 years we age 20 more years. Right? Maybe not. Let’s take a closer look at aging by the numbers. You probably know someone in his or her 50s who looks, feels and functions more like someone in his seventies. Likewise, you know others in their 50s who are more like 30-year-olds. That is a huge 40-year aging gap (age 30 to 70). I am setting out to prove to you that just a small bit of that difference in the speed at which these individuals are aging is the result of genetics, and that the lion’s share of that difference is the result of choices these folks have made and are continuing to make. Some experts believe that our well-being is only 15 to 20% genetics and a whopping 80 to 85% lifestyle related (i.e., the result of our choices).

The truth is: How many times you’ve circled the Sun is not nearly as important as the choices you make while circling it; that is, your choices of thoughts and actions are more important than the number of years you’ve lived. Your habitual thinking and daily activities determine your biological or physiological age (what Michael F. Roizen, M.D. calls your “Real Age” in his books on the subject).

The Proof – Masters Athletes

Age Blasters will prove that much, if not most, of the physical deterioration and decline we blame on aging is really the result of the lifestyle habits we have embraced. We’ll prove this by introducing you to more than 75 individuals, ages 40 to 80 and better, who have significantly slowed the aging process to the point that they are in better shape than most 20-year-olds, as proven by their age-defying athletic feats of endurance, strength and speed.
Here is a sampling of the age-blasters you’ll meet:

• In the summer of 2007, Yuma, Arizona’s, Bill Anderson peddled his bicycle around the perimeter of Arizona, some 2,000 miles in 14 1/2 days to celebrate his 81st birthday
• California’s Sandra Kiddy set 16 open ultra-distance-running American and World Records – all after age 42
• Alabama’s Scott “Old Navy” Hults entered the world of professional bodybuilding in his sixties and quickly garnered three pro cards – most bodybuilders never earn a single card
• A world-ranked swimmer in her youth, earning invitations to the U.S. Olympic Trials in 1968 and 1972, California’s Laura Val swam lifetime-best times at ages 49 and 50
• San Francisco’s Ray Piva, who struggled to jog a single quarter of a mile at age 54, ran 109 miles at the 2003 USA 24-Hour Championships – at age 77

The Benefits of Reading about Those Defying Aging

The key to significantly slowing the aging process is to first believe that it is possible. The Bill Andersons of the world, and others documented in Age Blasters, in accomplishing feats of endurance, strength and speed that few young adults can or could do, prove that it IS possible to greatly slow and even reverse aging.

One of the secrets to reversing (and slowing) the aging process so you can enjoy the life-enriching benefits of growing physiologically younger is to put your focus on and study those who have done it. While the general populace is pre-paving its future by paying attention to older folks who are on 11 medications and clinging to the ledge of life by their arthritic fingertips, you can read and learn about “older” individuals whose age-defying athletic feats will challenge your self-limiting, self-destructive, self-sabotaging beliefs (which we all have to one degree or another) and replace them with new, more empowering beliefs about aging. Besides reading about the masters of aging profiled in these pages, you can also look in other books, magazines, on TV, on the internet, in your neighborhood – anywhere and everywhere you can – for examples of men and women 40 and better who are redefining what it means to age.

Associations

In addition to reading about these masters of aging, there is something else you can do: Associate with those whose vitality and vigor belie their years. By hanging out, going places and doing things with those who have slowed aging to a crawl – those who are biologically much younger than their chronological age – you will start to live and to believe as they do. We do become like those with whom we associate.

There was a recent well-publicized, well-documented study that attributed much of the increased occurrence of obesity to one’s social networks. The gist was that if your friends, relatives, or mate are obese, you stand a much better chance of becoming grossly overweight yourself. This study brings home the power of our associations.

Back to aging, if you currently don’t have the opportunity to associate with those who are redefining what it means to age, then think about joining a biking, hiking, running, swimming, dancing, rowing, tennis … club, team, association or group where you will have the opportunity to be around and make friends with those who are living vigorous, exciting, active lifestyles despite being well past society’s definition of “their prime.” In addition, as a member of a club you’ll have the opportunity to associate with those who are younger than you, as well as those your senior. It is well known that when we train, play or compete with those who are younger or better than we are, it raises our game. Just being around these relative youngsters will keep you young as you work to keep pace with them.

3 Steps to a Younger You

Age Blasters guides you through 3 simple steps to a more youthful you. First, you’ll learn just why some people age faster than others and its implications for you. Then comes the 3-step process you can follow to SIGNIFICANTLY slow and reverse aging. You’ll learn how and why your self image sabotages your best intentions and a simple, yet powerful tool to get your self image to switch from the dark side to becoming your number-one supporter. Included in this fun 3-step process is the reading of the daily Age Blasters in the second part of this book. These daily readings are an enjoyable couple-of-minutes-a-day way to feeling, looking and growing younger.

Reading Age Blasters: 3 Steps to a Younger You will challenge your current self-limiting, self-destructive, self-sabotaging beliefs about aging. You will then be shown how to replace these old, outdated beliefs with new, more empowering ones and what you can do to transform yourself and grow younger.
You are a mere 3 easy steps away from a younger, more vibrant you. Enjoy the journey!