Putting it all together for the benefit of all. The word "holistic" gets used incorrectly all too often. This is the proper sense of the term. A lifetime's worth of work has gone into the presentation, of which these slides are but a summary. Anyone who is serious about health, academic and athletic performance organizational productivity and success should be thinking and acting super holistically.
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Super Holistic Fitness, The Master Plan
1. The Master PlanThe Master Plan
Super Holistic FitnessSuper Holistic Fitness
2. Holistic Definition
Holistic, adjective, Gk holos, all
In philosophy:
Characterized by comprehension of the parts
as intimately interconnected and explicable
only by reference to the whole.
3. Holistic Definition 2
In medicine:
Treatment of the whole person,
including mental and social factors
rather than just the physical
symptoms of a disease.
See the Biopsychosocial Model
4. Holistic Health Blueprint
1. Immediate environment free of toxins, etc.
2. Drink plenty of clean water
3. Healthy eating, ancestral based, fat-adapted
4. Personal hygiene and checkups
5. Exercise, including posture and breathwork
6. Sleep and recuperation
7. Mental development, positivity, etc.
8. Financial discipline and generosity
9. Social interconnectivity, global awareness
10. Meditation, spirituality, and arts
5. “Those who value their time seek
out the experts.”
Take it one piece at a time.
Every little bit helps.
Feeling Overwhelmed?
7. Dietary Beverages
Water is life
Your primary beverage
Test and purify
Avoid sweeteners
Avoid fluoridation
8. Standard American Diet
(SAD)
We’ve been told to avoid fat and cholesterol.
Meanwhile sugars have been added to everything
(HFCS and artificial sweeteners).
Omega 6 vegetable oils,
is a relatively new industry,
hydrogenation and deodorized rancidity...
9. Ancestral Diets
Animal based from wild source or poly-culture farms
High fat, grass fed beef, butter, chicken, eggs, etc, wild
fish, olive oil, coconut oil, nuts and avocado...
Seasonal carbohydrates, not to excess
Avoid overly processed foods.
Eat REAL food!
“Yum.”
10. Becoming Fat-adapted
Keep total grams of carbs for the day
below 50 – 75 grams.
Give the enzymes time to adapt.
No carbs in the morning.
Exercise!
11. Hygiene
Showers and hand washing
Oral, brush and floss
Sexual hygiene
Ecological (tick bite prevention, etc.)
Medical, checkups (dental, etc.)
12. Exercise is Fun!
HOLISTIC FITNESS:
Cardio
Strength
Flexibility
Balance / Agility
Posture and Breath
"It's not a chore and drudgery but a Vitality Celebration"
13. Weights & Cardio
Sarcopenia and Mortality Rates
Strength Training before Cardio
Draining the Tub
Hepatic Insulin Sensitivity
Weights and Cardio Combo
Kettlebells and Calisthenics
Burst Training, Intervals, HIIT and Tabata
14. Posture
Yoga is especially good...
Alexander Technique
Chiropractic care
Bodywork
Body Awareness Practice
Interrelationships: breath, mood enhancement,
athletic performance, hormones and neurotransmitters, etc.
15. Breathwork
Slow, deep, diaphragmatic breathing,
In and out through the nose.
The basis of mind/body mastery
Like tools that can be used to
quiet the mind, or to energize,
to balance brain hemispheres, or to inspire
insights...
18. Positivity, Smiling &
Laughter
Smile Therapy:
Neurotransmitter levels
Neuroplasticity
and mirror neurons.
“Laugh and the world laughs with you…”
19. Financial Discipline & Generosity
"We are happy to the degree we have
control of our lives."
Money is the energy that powers the rest
of the holistic health structure.
Generosity creates the positive flow.
Abundance consciousness and LOA…
22. Meditation
"Meditation always begins with the body." Iyengar
Stress reduction
Cortisol control
Rebuilding the brain
Increased healing and happiness…