Today's Topic 👉 Physical Wellness

This week we’re featuring a new book by our friend Jonathan Goodman, an ex-personal trainer and dad to 3 young kids who has built multi-million-dollar businesses and authored a bunch of books.

Jon’s latest book, Unhinged Habits, is full of helpful frameworks to break bad habits and build a life you enjoy by mastering the art of strategic subtraction.

If you liked Atomic Habits or Essentialism, you’ll love this book. Same lane, but a contrarian spin with more focus on the deeper values of relationships, health, and purpose.

Last week, we unpacked the definition of wellness.

Going deeper into physical wellness, we prioritized six focus areas:

• STRENGTH: Resistance training, muscle maintenance

• CARDIO: Heart health, endurance

• FLEXIBILITY: Range of motion, injury prevention

• NEUROMOTOR: Balance, coordination, agility

• NUTRITION: Fueling the body

• SLEEP: Recovery, cognitive function

The first four are aligned with the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) guidelines on the quantity and quality of exercise needed to develop and maintain fitness for healthy adults (Garber et al., 2011).

In the coming weeks, we’ll cover more on each of these topics.

Want more now? Check out the full ACSM guidelines. (Warning: they’re designed for professionals who counsel and prescribe individualized exercise, so there’s a lot here)

ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTOR

Brian S. Dye, Ed.D., is the founder of Wellness Literacy Co., an evidence-based wellness education platform which helps people access, understand, and apply evidence-based wellness information.

P.S. If you love lifting, books, and making money, Jonathan Goodman also writes a newsletter. Try it for free to get a sample chapter from his new book, Unhinged Habits.