Health 101
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Intro
Health consists of 3 aspects: physical, mental, and emotional.
Assessment
How do you know if you are fully healthy? And how can you improve? Start with understanding aspects of health. Start with physical:
- Breathing - see simple assessment - [1]. Quality and depth. Breath 301 - think of lungs as balloon, when full it massages and aligns everything. Lungs as pump with heart as valve - see Heart Is Not the Pump.
- Alignment - chiropractic, alignment stretches, exercise ball, flexibility, hanging, laying on back, posture. Breathing to fill your body balloon.
- Muscles - strength, length, symmetry, breaks and injuries, body fat percentage
- Ligaments and - strength, flexibility, length, injuries. Stiffness of joints.
- Flexibility - range of motion, resistnace to shock
- Herniation - how to cure spinal disc herniation, a common feature in erect animals
- Activity vs relaxation - abiity to attain a rest state, lower blood pressure, lower breath rate, control heart rate. Heart as
Tools
Different exercises to attain physical health:
- Breath work
- Flexibility exercises
- Strength training - weight lifting, resistance, isometrics
- Core training - see all the muscles involved - [2]
- Symmetry training - [3]
- Unilateral exercises - [4]
- Eccentric training - [5]
- Concentric training - compared to eccentric - [6]
- Isometric - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isometric_exercise
- Isokinetic machines vs isotonic - [7]
- Isolation vs compound exercises - [8]
- Plyometric - jump training - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plyometrics
- Float tank - [9]