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:
- 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
- Ecto, endo, mesomorph - [2]
Healing
- Garbage collection - harmful chemicals, chemical imbalance, particles stored in muscle and fat, intenstinal cleaning, lymphatic system, sweting, defecation and urination
- Repairing muscle tissue - torn or microtorn muscles
- Repairing connective tissue - cartilage, ligament, tendon, collagen
- Repairing breath - proper breathing, allergies
- Fixing eyesight
- Repairing bone - breaks and fractures, partial and whole
- Repairing teeth -
- Repairing skin -
- Reparing nerve tissue - growing nerve cells, cyborgs
Tools
Different exercises to attain physical health:
- Breath work
- Flexibility exercises
- Strength training - weight lifting, resistance, isometrics
- Alignment - foam rolling [3], chiropractic, rolfing [4], posture exercises, massage
- Core training - see all the muscles involved - [5]
- Symmetry training - [6]
- Unilateral exercises - [7]
- Eccentric training - [8]
- Concentric training - compared to eccentric - [9]
- Isometric - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isometric_exercise
- Isokinetic machines vs isotonic - [10]
- Isolation vs compound exercises - [11]
- Plyometric - jump training - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plyometrics
- Mobility training - motion - [12] or Dynamix in P90X3
- Float tank - [13]
- Lymph flow - acupuncture, acupressure, masssage, kundalini yoga
- Sitting - Posture Chairs
- Compression/decompression
- A&P - Anatomy and Physiology is a start, sprinkle in some Kinesiology and Sports Medicine
Other
- Yoga
- Meditation
- Tai chi