Insanely Helpful Tools for Meeting Your Health Goals
There is an old English Proverb which states, “Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy and wealthy and wise.” While your schedule might not be conducive to waking up with the sun and retiring early, that isn’t really the main point of this saying. It’s about good habits and the results they yield. So, if you’re like me, sometimes you just feel like you need a fresh start, like your old habits aren’t working for you to help you reach your goals. Anytime is the right time to set a goal, make a plan, and pursue growth. So, in each post in this series, I’ll be sharing some tools to help you achieve all your goals in one of these areas: health, finance, or intellectual growth. This post focuses on our health.
Goal: Better Health
Good health is important, so it is not surprising that many personal goals center around it. My own personal goals for health currently center around getting regular exercise and improving my emotional health. So, here is what I’m using and loving right now!
First Pick for Health Goals: FitOn
For exercise, I’ve been using an app called FitOn for over two years. I am not exaggerating when I say it is a game-changer. The app offers hundreds of workout videos from real trainers. Whether you like HIIT, dance, pilates, weights, yoga, cardio, seriously whatever you like, this app has it all! And the best part is the app allows you to set your own exercise goal, whether you want to lose weight, build muscle, tone up, or just be more fit in general.
You can customize how many workouts you want per week. Every week you’ll get new workout suggestions to keep you moving forward. You can always choose workouts on your own by using the intuitive search options the app offers, but I found the weekly list of workouts helped me stay motivated and meet my goal every week.
At this point, I enjoy exercising every week because this app makes planning for it so easy. Also, because it’s an app, I can access my workouts anywhere I am. And y’all, it is FREE! They do offer a paid version with meal plans and lots of cool bells and whistles for your workouts, but I’ve stuck with the free version so far. You get so much in just the free app. You can get it here.
Second Pick for Health Goals: Shine
At the beginning of January 2021, I started using an app called Shine. I had struggled with anxiety and stress management for the previous few months, and I realized I needed to work on myself to find opportunities to be grateful and happy each day. I’m so glad I found this app! Every day the app offers me a new “Daily Shine,” which consists of a meditation or pep-talk and then a short reflective journal topic.
The app makes self care so quick and easy. It really helps me to focus on what matters most to me personally. Also, the topics are general enough that they could apply to anyone, but the way they are written somehow makes them feel personal. I do my “Shine” every night before bed, but it would be great to start the day or as an after-work boost as well. I used the free version for a while before upgrading to premium. You can get it here.
Helpful Tools for Any Health Goal:
Whatever your health goal, check below for some great options of blogs, books, apps, and other tools that can help you reach any health goal you set for yourself! You can also click on any tool to be directed to where you can buy or download.
Eat More Healthy:
- The Blue Zones Kitchen (cookbook by Dan Buettner): a collection of 100 delicious recipes for those who want to live to 100
- Noom (site/app): a meal-planning app that isn’t free but has everything you need to get serious about eating more healthy
- My Fitness Pal (site/app): an app to track calorie intake that is easy to use and free
Sleep Better:
- The Sleep Revolution (book by Arianna Huffington): an interesting look at the value of sleep in our lives
- Slumber (app): a clever app designed to help you train yourself to fall asleep
Be More Fit:
- Nerd Fitness (site): articles, workouts, and personalized tools geared toward audiences struggling to stay invested in fitness
- Fit On (app): fitness made easy with free workouts and customized plans right on your phone
- Mighty Health (Site, App): This site /app has workout options and meal plans and more specifically for people over 50.
Improve Mental or Emotional Health:
- How to Come Alive Again (book by Beth McColl): a great book for anyone with mental illness or going through a difficult time
- Shine (app): this is one of my favorite apps, which helps you set up a short personal daily self-care and reflection routine
- Headspace and Calm (apps): both of these apps offer meditation and calming techniques for managing stress and sleeping better
Improve Overall Health:
- Well + Good (blog): from fitness to skincare to nutrition to relationship health, this blog covers it all
- Healthline (site): a one-stop shop for articles on every aspect of health and even health news
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My Hope for You as You Pursue Healthy Living
I hope these tools help you set and achieve all your personal health goals. Drop a comment below to share your current personal health goal! Or if you have any other tools we could all use to be our best selves and live our best lives, please share those too!
For more posts about better health, click on one of these great posts below:
- How To Overcome Obstacles to Better Health
- Simple Changes to Improve Your Health Today!
- Simple Self-Care You’ll Love: Silk and Sonder Journal Review
And If your goals are not health related check out the other two posts in this series
- Useful Tools to Help You Meet your Financial Goals Now!
- The Best Tools to Boost Brainpower and Keep You Learning!
Have a good day!
Jamie
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What wonderful suggestions. It will be a pleasure to explore them
Thank you!
Today I read this article carefully. So many wonderful suggestions. Several I need to explore and PUT TO USE. Thanks for the APP suggestions-especially the free ones. Jamie, you are a very disciplined young woman. You fit more into a day than most do in a week. And, you practice what you suggest.
Thank you Ms. Kay! It is important to keep trying to develop and keep healthy habits and it is not easy! I hope the suggestions were helpful!