What Does “Healthy” Mean to You?

What does “healthy” mean to you?

Is it losing a few pounds?

Being able to live a long life?

Looking and feeling good?

Not getting out of breath doing daily activities?

Getting "six-pack abs"?

Avoiding health issues as you get older?

Working around a nagging injury?

Getting stronger?

Being more [flexible, mobile, fill in the blank]?

The answer is . . . YES!

YOU get to decide what healthy means to you at any given moment.

But ask yourself a question: does my definition of health improve my life physically and mentally?

Let's say you want to lose a lot of weight quickly for a wedding coming up.

But you've never really spent time building muscle.

So the first thing you do is go on an extremely restrictive diet to cut as many pounds as possible.

Yeah, you might lose 30 pounds in 30 days but at what cost?

You've probably lost a bunch of muscle as well, you feel miserable, and all for the look you're going for.

You now have a poor relationship with food, your hormones are out of whack, and you're not sure how to even maintain your weight.

In the end, you go back to your old eating habits to avoid the suffering and gain back mostly fat.

Did this improve your life physically and mentally?

Think again about what you really want out of life.

What does good health look like in 10 or 20 years from now?

Map it out. Envision it. Nothing's too far out of reach.

Now take action.

Come up with a plan that will get you there and KEEP you there.

Not fad diets. Not quick fixes.

Real change in your behaviors.

Real investment in your daily actions and decisions that improve your nutrition, your training, your mental well-being, your vitality so you can truly enjoy life.

What are YOU doing to improve your health?