Count the number of steps taken
This trick can keep track of the distances covered and will be a great motivation to walk more. After all, a certain number of steps will help you always stay in shape and teach you to replace walking short distances by transport.
WHO recommends taking at least 10,000 steps or 7-9 kilometers per day. However, it is recommended to start with 2000 steps and gradually increase this number.
In the modern world, there are gadgets for counting steps taken, or you can download a special application on your smartphone.
How to lead an active lifestyle?
It’s easy to say – go, but what if you don’t have time? After all, modern man is an eternally busy being, always has a cloud of troubles and problems that need to be solved today.
It's very simple - walking is not running, so walk to work, but you'll have to wake up a little earlier, but it's worth it. If it takes too long to go to work, then at least make a few stops, thereby allowing your body to finally wake up, let your muscles flaccid after sleep become toned, and at the same time, brain activity improves and attention and ability to concentrate increase.
By the way, you can also walk from work, avoid elevators; after running up the stairs for half a day, you will definitely wind up half the required amount.
By the way, shopping for groceries or things is also a good physical activity; pushing a cart, constantly trying on things, running from boutique to boutique can give your muscles a good workout. So put on comfortable shoes and go!
The main thing is that such a trip does not end with a raid on some “fast and cheap food” restaurant. If you are a young mother, then you also cannot avoid daily walks, but it’s up to you to decide - either constantly sit on a bench, lazily rocking the stroller, or constantly walk, exploring new routes and streets in your area, at the same time, constantly losing weight and straining your body physically.
Naturally, walking is very good, but by adding heavy physical activity to your diet, you can achieve even greater and visible results.
Therefore, find the sport that you like, it could be fitness, swimming, running, aerobics, dancing or wrestling, anything as long as it brings you pleasure. Even if it’s difficult to start, you won’t even have time to look back when you really start to like it, you just need to “shatter” your body.
By the way, if you are a sociable person, you can look in your city for associations of the same activists who form clubs where outings, hikes, trips to the sea, various sports competitions and gatherings constantly take place. In addition, there you can make new and “healthy” friends.
Morning work-out
15 minutes of simple exercises every morning will not take time, and the effect will be amazing. Exercising to your favorite music will give you energy for the whole day.
Meditation can be an alternative or complement. Practices allow you to tune in to the coming day, clear your thoughts and relax your body. All this is simply necessary in the crazy schedule of big cities.
A healthy lifestyle is not only about sports
Sport is, of course, important and necessary for the human body, but no healthy and active lifestyle can be achieved without a few more points.
There is probably no need to explain to anyone that giving up bad habits is an important point in this lifestyle; smoking and alcohol, unfortunately, have already become part of our mentality, but it is necessary to destroy the established foundations. Allow yourself only a little alcohol on major holidays, although you can do just fine without it, but this is, of course, a purely personal matter.
Let's remember about proper and healthy nutrition. Again, most women and girls try to follow various complex diets and techniques; nutritionists are conducting complex research in favor of one or another healthy food. This, of course, is all great, but in fact, at least for starters, learn to simply eat natural food.
These are berries and fruits, vegetables, dairy products, seafood, fish and meat, herbs and so on. Naturally, try to buy everything that is grown naturally, and not with the help of various chemicals and additives that are needed for long-term preservation of products and their pleasant appearance.
Therefore, it is better to avoid artificial and synthetic products. These include carbonated waters and store-bought juices, flour and sweets, mayonnaise, ketchups, fast foods, sausages and frankfurters, milk cheeses and yoghurts.
Rejection of bad habits
The most difficult, but necessary point for everyone who wants to start leading an active lifestyle.
Smoking, computer addiction and overeating do not make life better, but only plunge you deeper into the whirlpool of gray everyday life.
Completing all ten points is guaranteed to give you strength and energy, and will also allow you to start leading an active lifestyle.
Components of an Active Healthy Lifestyle
Healthy Eating
Proper nutrition is essential to leading an active, healthy lifestyle. Your body requires a balanced diet every day to maintain enough vitamins, nutrients and minerals needed to maintain a healthy body.
Active lifestyle
You will need to include fitness as part of your life. Physical activity maintains your healthy weight, helps you sleep better at night, prevents heart attacks and strokes and other health problems, and generally prolongs your life.
Stress Management
Emotional stress plays an important role in many diseases, both directly and indirectly. People are also more likely to smoke, overeat, drink too much, work long hours, argue with others, and so on when they feel stressed. So, stress management is an important part of your new lifestyle, and meditation and relaxation techniques are indeed a key part of an active healthy lifestyle.
Make friends with yourself
Loving yourself is the key to a healthy, happy lifestyle. Self-esteem is important because feeling good can influence how you act.
Motivating Your Mind And Body
Program your mind for complete success. Develop and focus on a compelling future that excites and inspires you.
Life Balance
If you want to maintain an active healthy lifestyle you must take steps to ensure a certain level of balance... spiritual, physical, emotional, social, mental and material. You have to balance work and family and all other areas of your life without spreading yourself too thin and without the guilt trip of doing one thing but thinking you should be doing another. All key areas of our lives intersect and intertwine, influencing each other.
Physical activity in retirement
I started working on physical health after I retired. I did exercise therapy for several years, first as treatment, then as rehabilitation after an illness. And after that I really liked doing physical education.
House in the village
In order to completely improve her health, she went to the village of her childhood “Altynai”, in the Sverdlovsk region. I bought a house there inexpensively. The village is large and scattered.
Far from my house there was a health center, shops, a club, a bus station, a relatives’ house - all about 1.5 km and a railway station for electric trains - 3 km. This is a well-thought-out decision to buy a house - so you can walk a lot. Yes, I walked a lot and enjoyed it, then I bought a bicycle.
Every day I took walks on it. I remembered my childhood, how I “flyed” on skis and rode a bicycle around the village. Familiar passers-by shouted after him: “Borisovna, you’re cutting again!” And in winter I rolled the track and went skiing every other day.
I lived in the village for almost five years and got good healthy results. I was as healthy as a bull, only with skinny sides. Yes, I lost weight and felt very great.
I would still live there, but it’s hard for a woman alone, already aged, in the village: get water, firewood, heat the stove, remove snow in winter...
Good day, our dear readers! Have you begun to notice that you are more tired, you have no energy for any accomplishments, and the frequency of illnesses has suddenly increased? What happened, who is to blame for this? Maybe ecology or government? No! Most often, the reason for this trend is your own lifestyle. Let's talk today about how to lead a healthy lifestyle.
We think there are no people who would not like to be healthy and always feel 100%, and maybe even 200%.
Our life constantly requires us to invest some kind of investment - time, money or health. If we consider health from the perspective of a resource, then many of us do not at all monitor where we spend it.
Poor nutrition, bad habits, poor environment, sedentary working conditions - all this, of course, leaves an imprint on our health. No matter what physical abilities nature bestows on you, in the end, an incorrect lifestyle can bring its own unpleasant results.
A healthy lifestyle and active longevity are what we should strive for, even for those who seem to have no visible health problems right now.
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Motivation for a healthy and active lifestyle
Let us describe the main reasons why you should reconsider your lifestyle:
Health is the first thing worth changing for. After all, everyone wants to feel great, get sick less, and be full of energy.
A slim body. For many, a slim figure is one of the first points in their quest for happiness. This is partly true, since a slim figure, for example, will make you feel attractive, which will undoubtedly increase your chances in the eyes of the opposite sex, whether this applies to a woman or a man. But physical activity and a balanced diet will undoubtedly make your figure much slimmer.
Energy. The right lifestyle can add strength to you and give you a great boost of energy to achieve your life goals.
Saving money. If your finances are your primary motivator, then consider that changing your lifestyle will allow you to save a decent amount on medical care, as well as by giving up smoking and alcohol, for example.
Preservation of youth. This reason is probably more relevant for our readers. Because following a daily routine, as well as sports training, will always make you look light and fresh. And vegetables and fruits in your diet will improve the condition of your skin and hair.
Positive attitude. When people lead an unhealthy lifestyle, they often experience disruption to their daily routine. This leads to sleep disturbances, stress, and depression. A depressed psychological state can lead to overeating, and this will certainly affect your figure.
To forget about all these unpleasant consequences, you need changes in your lifestyle. After all, feeling good in itself charges us with an excellent mood, and proper food and an active life contribute to the production of joy hormones in our body (endorphins).
Life extension. Regular hygiene, as well as hardening, can work wonders and lead you to active longevity, since these actions increase your resistance to various kinds of ailments.
Freedom . Yes! The right lifestyle can give you freedom - freedom from bad habits, freedom from poor nutrition, freedom of movement, in the end.
Success. Changing your lifestyle can bring you benefits, even in financial terms. Yes Yes! You heard right! The right lifestyle can bring you money!
This is perhaps due to the fact that a healthy person is much more productive, he has more energy, his thoughts become cleaner and clearer. And, accordingly, the goals set are achieved much faster. In addition, these changes train your willpower, because sticking to it in the early stages can be very difficult
An example for the future generation. Your self-development and discipline will become an excellent personal example for children. This makes it much easier to convey to a teenager the rules that will help him grow up healthy, active, and purposeful.
We hope that all these reasons are enough to motivate you to change your lifestyle.
Or maybe you have personal examples of motivation that pushed you to change your way of life? Share with us! Perhaps you can have a positive influence on someone else through your example.
Components
We've sorted out motivation, now we need to understand what is directly included in the concept of a healthy and active lifestyle:
- Physical activity. - Balanced diet. — Compliance with the daily routine. - Personal hygiene. — Hardening. - Rejection of bad habits. — Positive psychological environment. Preventing stress has a beneficial effect on our mental health, and this, in turn, can have a positive effect on our physical condition.
You can learn more about each component of a healthy and active lifestyle from the book “Secrets of Health. Tested by time. Confirmed by science” which can be purchased in the OZON online store .
This book is a true reference for the whole family and offers a completely new approach to taking care of your own health. Here you will find useful tips on how to strengthen the immune system, prevent illness, as well as those simple, publicly available methods of treating various ailments that have proven effective.
You will learn how simple and often very unexpected changes in nutrition, physical activity and daily routine improve a person's physical and mental well-being at all stages of his life - from childhood to old age.
Health
If we talk about health in general, then this is a consequence of your life principles. It directly depends on your daily routine, what you eat, what you do, how much time you spend sleeping, how you treat personal hygiene, and so on. Physical health begins, first of all, with a healthy mindset.
A healthy mind in a healthy body is a stupid saying. A healthy body is a product of a sound mind. George Bernard Shaw
You need to understand what actions lead you to health or illness, what you need to change in your lifestyle and how you need to organize your future life. You must have a strong intention, determination to act, change yourself and bring your lifestyle in the right direction.
As Socrates said:
Health is not everything, but without health everything is nothing!
So in fact, without health, active longevity is impossible, it is impossible to feel good and smile, it is impossible to work fruitfully, it is impossible to be completely happy.
When the certainty that in your pursuit of happiness you need to change firmly settles in your head, you need to analyze your habits and passions in order to understand how global the transformation process will be.
You need to decide what you need to radically change in your life, and what you need to just modify a little, and maybe introduce something into your life, and also understand how to force yourself to change and how to accustom yourself to new rules.
The main thing to remember is that you are doing all this for yourself and only for yourself!
Five main steps
Today there are a lot of articles, methods, and educational materials on the topic of a healthy and active lifestyle. We will give you 5 steps with which, in our opinion, you should start your transformation:
Balanced diet
Of course, it all starts with food.
We are what we eat.
In order for your health to always be normal, your digestive system to not let you down, and food to give you energy and not heaviness, of course, you need to eat right.
If you are overweight, you need to change your nutrition system. If you lead a “fast food lifestyle,” you again need to change your nutrition system.
It is necessary to give up all harmful foods, eat healthy foods and, preferably, in the first half of the day. Introduce vegetables and fruits into your diet, while excluding processed foods, carbonated drinks, mayonnaise, sausages, sweet flour, and limit the consumption of fatty and fried foods.
Drink as much water as possible. Since the supply of sufficient water ensures timely cleansing of the body. This point is quite difficult to implement, but after a few weeks you will feel how much ease this change will bring you.
Active movement
It's no secret that a sedentary lifestyle leads to poor health, and maybe even to illness.
Movement is life!
Physical activity is without a doubt very important for a healthy lifestyle. Start small, like exercise.
Just 10-15 minutes can boost your energy throughout the day. Passive life on the couch near the TV should be left in the past. Spend your free time actively - go for walks, go on bike rides, play ball with your children. Gradually, you can introduce fitness classes into your life, and maybe even full-fledged sports training.
Rejection of bad habits
Yes, here you will need all the strong-willed qualities. This may be the most difficult point for you, but remember that neither smoking nor alcohol can make you happy.
Strengthening the body
Start following the rules of hygiene if you haven’t followed them before. Hygiene is not just “washing your hands before eating”, but a whole set of measures to ensure the normal functioning of the body.
Taking care of yourself, your body, your clothes and shoes will allow you to normalize the condition of your skin, and this will lead to even deeper beneficial processes at the level of the digestive, circulatory, and respiratory systems.
Hardening will be of great benefit. Do not immediately start with dousing yourself with cold water and walking barefoot in the snow. Start hardening your body gradually, for example, introduce a contrast shower into your daily routine.
Regular use of hardening procedures can more than halve your incidence rate per year, and may even completely eliminate them.
Healthy sleep
It is necessary to plan your time more carefully, distribute your tasks and responsibilities within the day in order to allocate a sufficient amount of time for sleep.
Disturbed sleep can lead to disruption of your overall psychological state, which will certainly affect your health. It is necessary to spend at least eight hours a day sleeping to ensure normal functioning of the body.
Compliance with sleep and wakefulness regimes, as well as a reasonable alternation of work and rest, can preserve strength, give the body more energy, and increase working capacity.
It is not necessary to follow the steps exactly in the order we suggested. You can start from anywhere, the main thing is to pay due attention to your self-development.
Act gradually, first get used to one innovation in your life, then take on another. Don't forget to praise yourself after each step you overcome.
Healthy lifestyle trends are dangerous for the body
As we wrote above, a healthy lifestyle is actively promoted by the media. Beautiful and healthy people attract attention and are a symbol of success in life. It's hard to argue with that.
According to statistics, a slim person is more successful in job interviews. It is easier for him to find a partner for a relationship. Good health and the absence of bad habits improve the quality of life and save your budget.
But is this lifestyle really that healthy? When is a healthy lifestyle dangerous for the body? And with what efforts are these external successes visible to the eye achieved?
Strict diets
Strict diets have been and remain the most popular among those wishing to lose weight. This is due to the fact that they allow you to quickly, in just a few days, get rid of extra pounds.
Such diets include mono-diets, high-protein, low-fat, low-carbohydrate, etc. Those. This is nutrition when some foods or elements are completely or partially excluded from the diet.
You need to understand that for the full functioning of processes in the body, all elements are necessary: proteins, fats, and carbohydrates.
- Protein is the main component for the construction and formation of the body and internal organs.
- Carbohydrates give the body energy to work.
- The lack of fat leads to the inability to absorb vitamins, for example, A and C. The result of a lack of fat can be dry skin, changes in hair quality and hair loss, sensitivity to cold and reduced immunity.
Thus, exclusion of any element from the diet during a diet leads to a deterioration in the body’s condition. Especially if such a diet is used for a long time.
Nutritionists do not advise living on a strict diet for more than three days. It is acceptable to use such diets when you need to lose weight quickly, for example, for an important event.
During a strict diet, the body is in a state of stress and starts the so-called economical mode, i.e. begins to use the available stocks of elements very carefully. In this case, a person loses weight, but weight loss occurs due to loss of water and protein. On the contrary, fat consumption slows down significantly.
As a result, there is an imbalance of essential elements in the body, which leads to general poor health and can also negatively affect the functioning of internal organs.
Too much fitness
Fitness in itself is not something negative. We are only interested in cases where the love of fitness becomes manic. In the weather behind the owners of slender figures, smiling on the covers of magazines and from the TV screen, people work hard in the gym.
Of course, it’s good when a person can set goals and achieve them. But sometimes achieving a goal becomes a mania, and we forget that in addition to a sculpted body, we also need to have a healthy body.
You need to load yourself in the gym under the guidance of an experienced trainer and after the approval of a doctor. This is especially important for beginners who decided to change their lives and bought a gym membership.
Separately, it is necessary to say about sports nutrition. Once a person gets into the gym and realizes that sport is now his life, two roads open before him.
The first is to do fitness for years, watch your diet and after some time become like the star on the cover.
Or the second way is to quickly get the desired results and change your appearance, taking advantage of the achievements of the chemical industry.
After research, scientists came to the conclusion that sports nutrition causes more harm than benefit to the body. But the desire for quick results and trust in brands and large manufacturers make the quiet voice of scientists inaudible.
A person who is just thinking about using special nutrition has a question. If these products are unhealthy, then why are they being sold? The answer is simple.
This business brings too much income to large corporations. In addition, both in our country and abroad, the sports nutrition market is not regulated by the state, and large businesses here can do whatever they want.
Therefore, everyone should be aware of the possible consequences after consuming such products.
Increased cleanliness
Washing your hands with soap, after coming from the street or before eating, these are the norms to which we have become accustomed since childhood.
But some lovers of a healthy lifestyle believe that the more often they wash their bodies and hands, the better they will protect themselves from harmful bacteria and germs. The fear of becoming infected with something becomes a daily struggle for such people to keep their hands clean.
We will not discuss the social aspect of this phenomenon, how others look at such eccentrics when, after shaking hands, they take antiseptic wipes out of their pockets.
In this article, we are more concerned with the issue of health. Showering with soap several times a day leaves the body without the necessary bacteria that have a protective function. Also, excessive cleanliness can lead to allergies and sometimes asthma.
Many scientists generally believe that mild illnesses: a mild cold, a slight runny nose, are more beneficial to the body than harmful. Since they allow the body to strengthen its protective functions and get used to bacteria and viruses.
Despite the abundance of advice and the popularity of a healthy lifestyle, in the end we still come to a conclusion that has been known for many centuries - to be healthy, you need to know everything in moderation: eat a balanced diet, do not abuse bad habits and move more.
Recommend our article to those who still doubt whether to change their lifestyle. Share with us how your transformation is going, what stage you are at now and what you are paying attention to. Thank you for reading the article to the end.
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When fatigue, apathy, weakness and inability to work productively overcome, a person begins to wonder where it all comes from and why, as before, he cannot work at full strength and not feel the loss of inner harmony?
Fatigue, frequent illness, bad mood and a tendency to depression are often the result of an unhealthy lifestyle. That's all, you ask?
That's right, we will answer! After all, the main components of human existence depend on lifestyle: health, mood, performance. If all this is at zero or close to this mark, there can be no talk of success. You won’t be able to become a happy, harmonious person by littering your everyday life with things that you can easily refuse.
