Health 101

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:

1. 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.
2. Alignment - chiropractic, alignment stretches, exercise ball, flexibility, hanging, laying on back, posture. Breathing to fill your body balloon.
3. Muscles - strength, length, symmetry, breaks and injuries, body fat percentage
4. Ligaments and - strength, flexibility, length, injuries. Stiffness of joints.
5. Flexibility - range of motion, resistnace to shock
6. Herniation - how to cure spinal disc herniation, a common feature in erect animals
7. 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:

1. Breath work
2. Flexibility exercises
3. Strength training - weight lifting, resistance, isometrics
4. Alignment - foam rolling [2], chiropractic, rolfing, posture exercises
5. Core training - see all the muscles involved - [3]
6. Symmetry training - [4]
7. Unilateral exercises - [5]
8. Eccentric training - [6]
9. Concentric training - compared to eccentric - [7]
10. Isometric - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isometric_exercise
11. Isokinetic machines vs isotonic - [8]
12. Isolation vs compound exercises - [9]
13. Plyometric - jump training - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plyometrics
14. Mobility training - motion - [10] or Dynamix in P90X3
15. Float tank - [11]

Other

1. Yoga
2. Meditation
3. Tai chi

Links

• Integrated Humans