9 principles to living a healthy life

9 principles to living a healthy life

Want to be living a healthy life? Here are some principles to focus on that will help you with that.


Most principles of health lists tell you what to do. Gaining that knowledge is usually the easy part of health. These principles will help you with the hard part, they focus on HOW to do it.


9 principles for good health


Strength - of conviction as to WHY good health matters to you


Endurance - understanding that good health is the ultimate long game and playing it as such


Flexibility - to be open to new information, new ideas, and new ways of doing things


Balance - incorporating health into YOUR life and dancing with what where and how that looks as things change


Proprioception - knowing where you are in the process and understanding where you need to go next. It’s also about being brutally honest about where you are right now.


Agility - to apply different tactics and strategies to different situations and adapt effectively when things don't go to plan


Power - incorporating the power of community and support into your health journey


Speed - the speed to make healthy decisions when they need to be made. Life offers us a series of health choice points on a daily basis, if we agonise over them we don’t end up getting anything done.


Coordination - ensuring that all the important pillars of health for you occur regularly in your schedule


Good health is a result of action (usually a whole lot of imperfect action), when we focus on HOW to implement health as opposed to WHAT to do it’s much easier for us to take (imperfect) action.

Thanks for reading. When you’re ready to improve your health here is a way we can help with that.

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Filipe Cymbron

Sports and Exercise Medicine Physician

2 年

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