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How to add 30 years to the prime of your life!

By Mario Hostios

At the dawn of the 20th century the averaged projected lifespan of an American citizen was 47 years. Through improvements in our standard of living and treatment of disease we have added 30 years to that number in the past 100 years. Living has gotten easier and disease can be managed. This is a good thing, however we are beginning to notice that something is still missing. Ironically, this extra thirty years of life have been added to the end of life. We are living easier, and living longer, but are we living better? Take a look in any assisted living home and you may be prompted to ask yourself'If I were in his or her shoes, at what point would I be living or just waiting to pass on?

This article is not about adding years to the end of life (we have already achieved that) but instead about adding years to the prime of your life. Imagine, the prime of your life where you are physically at your best and mature enough to make the most of it. Now imagine that time lasting not just 15 years, but instead 45.

How can we do this? Well sorry to disappoint you, but the complete answer isn't going to fit in this article. However, I can tell you the direction of practice is a lifestyle that seeks to optimize and preserve the two things that precede all the physical degeneration that we hate. This means exercise, nutrition, and lifestyle and no, the effort to learn and practice cannot be delegated like trips to the dentist. You must do the brushing and flossing for yourself.

Two keys to keeping the door to the prime of your life open! Everything that you ever heard anyone complain about in terms of their physical well being can be traced to negative changes in one of two things. Yes I know that is a bold statement. It's true. From how one looks, to how one feels, and all the so-called ravages of old age, all of these things are expressions of progressive imbalances in posture and metabolism. The difference between a man or woman in their prime and one near the end of life is posture and metabolism. Think of an aged person. What is the picture? Stooped, shuffling, and in pain. In other words, bad posture. They likely will have accumulated excess fat in their body regardless of whether they appear overweight and at the same time will have lost lean muscle tissue. These are indications of an aged metabolism i.e. hormone system.

A fitness program that recognizes how to improve and optimize posture and the hormone system is the solution to adding 30 years to the prime of your life. It has to be comprehensive in that is addresses exercise, nutrition, and lifestyle to benefit these two key attributes. It is far more important the types of exercise, nutrition, and lifestyle methods meet the body's needs than choosing the types that you prefer to do. My apologies to those to want to be able to do whatever they feel like doing i.e. "I don't like weights or the gym, I will walk instead". That won't work. Like it said in the movie Karate Kid, "nature rule, Daniel san, not mine."

The most exciting news is that the program to accomplish this already exists, and no, it doesn't take a monastic lifestyle to do it. Think of it as a physical education course, the one you should have got when you were in school. Invest in learning how to take care of your body. What would you think of someone who never brushed or flossed his or her teeth but did go the dentist every six months? Think their teeth would look good or last long? Why is that any different from someone who doesn't exercise (or exercises poorly), eats whatever, and it totally ignorant of how to care for their body, but does go the doctor when they are sick? Going to the doctor is good, but aren't they missing the other half of the equation? That other half of the equation is the solution to adding 30 years to the prime of your life. Everyone will benefit from a fitness program, but only those who take action will. Make a decision and take action, your life is waiting.

About the Author:

Mario Hostios is a certified personal trainer in Los Angeles, Ca. To get more Mario, free ebooks, and audio, go to www.livefitla.com.