Basic principles and rules of a healthy lifestyle
If you want to be strong, beautiful, successful, and active, love a healthy lifestyle. Smiling fitness gurus, athletes and bloggers show by their example that this is real. And they cause envy.
It seems that choosing a sport and starting to lead such a lifestyle is as easy as shelling pears: eat right, adhere to the daily routine, love physical activity, and monitor mental health.
Practice shows that starting a healthy lifestyle on Monday is not easy. Either there are a lot of workloads, or there is no desire. Let’s try to figure out what prevents you from leading a socially healthy lifestyle? Where to find motivation? And how to accustom the body to such a healthy lifestyle easily and gradually.
What is a healthy lifestyle?
The definition sounds like this: it is a system of habits and actions aimed at maintaining and increasing health, preventing and combating the effects of stress, smoking, and other negative habits in order to improve the physical performance of the body and harmonize the mental state.
Why lead a healthy life?
Healthy lifestyle lovers, doctors, and nutritionists call the main advantages of this lifestyle:
- High physical and mental performance.
- Endurance and ability to withstand the load at work.
- Longevity and quality of life.
- Increased resistance to colds.
- Prevention of depression and burnout.
- Prevention of the development of obesity.
- The absence of depression.
- The flow of creative ideas and motivation to achieve goals in work, career, and business.
How to learn it?
The main advice is to find like-minded people. Adherents of health and activity are advised to look for allies in gyms, running clubs, and yoga centers. Communication with such people will help a person not to lose stimulus and energize.
Like-minded people will tell their stories about how sports, diet, and the right attitude to life helped to overcome the disease, and achieve success in business and family affairs. And most importantly, they will teach you the basics of a healthy lifestyle.
It is also useful to try working out with a personal trainer. He will select the load for the physical form, give advice on how to improve the vital activity of the body with the help of nutrition and daily routine, and guide with advice and personal example.
Tips for starting a healthy lifestyle
Starting a healthy lifestyle is not a matter of one day. It takes 21 days for a person to complete the formation of the habit of exercising and eating healthy. Step by step, a new way of thinking and living is being created, an incentive not to give up and take care of yourself. In order not to go astray:
- write down your motivation for a healthy lifestyle and put it in a conspicuous place;
- watch the motivational video. Informative videos of trainers, fitness gurus, and bloggers will help you not to lose your fuse.
Components of a healthy lifestyle
In order to improve health, strengthen the body, calm the nerves and increase efficiency, therapists and trainers advise you to completely reconsider your habits. Important components of a healthy lifestyle are:
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daily regime
No sports, diets will help restore strength and improve health if a person works 12 hours a day;
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healthy sleep and good mental health
Lack of sleep instantly affects life, mood, efficiency, speed of muscle recovery after training, and even immune activity. Therefore, one should not be surprised that diseases come one after another if you sleep less than 8 hours a day and go to bed deep after midnight;
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balanced diet
proteins, fat, and carbohydrates balance can promote weight loss, normalization of metabolic indicators, and general well-being where 20% of the diet is proteins, 30% is fat, and 60% is carbohydrates;
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to give up smoking;
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regular sports
Exhausting yourself only with diets for the sake of a beautiful figure is useless. But to make friends with sports and with the help of fitness, training in the gym, step by step to strengthen muscles and ligaments, develop flexibility, tighten the silhouette – the goal of the athlete.