Guide for a healthy lifestyle by Adarsh Somani

 

Being a fitness freak is very different from being a health freak. According to Adarsh Somani, fitness is a part of health where we regularly exercise and maintain a healthy diet. Following a healthy lifestyle involves sleeping early, rising early, rebooting yourself by offering prayers, meditation/pranayama, reading something spiritual, and starting your day with positivity and zest.

Exercising involves a mix of strength, cardio, endurance, flexibility, and agility. We can achieve this only if we have a mix of weight training, yoga, and some sort of endurance sport. Taking adequate rest and massages is important for your body to recover. Eating a balanced meal of proteins, carbs, fibers is what Adarsh Somani suggests for a healthy lifestyle.

You can consider yourself a fitness freak if you drink and smoke, but you can’t call yourself a health freak. Being healthy comes from your cellular health and hormonal balance. In order to be healthy, one must have adequate sleep and water. Our body is roughly 70% water. All organs need water for proper functioning. Inadequate hydration can lead to serious illness, on the other hand, sleep is the best form of recovery.

Many forms of illness stem from your gut, so according to Adarsh Somani, it’s important to keep your gut health right and strong by fasting for at least 10 to 12 hours. Avoid/ Junk food/ Fast food/ Packaged foods.

Sometimes we do get too obsessed with our weight, not realizing that muscles are heavier than fat, so instead of dropping your weight, work on dropping your fat percentage. After any illness for example after few days of suffering from a viral, you drop a few kilos and you are very happy about it, please understand that you have not lost fat, you have lost muscles, which is losing good weight and retaining bad weight.

Adarsh Somani says one can be a little overweight and still be strong and fit. Take the example of an Australian cricketer Mathew Hayden who was 110 kgs, he was strong, energetic, flexible, athletic, so don’t wear blinders and just watch your weight. Keeping a healthy immune system is extremely important, supplementing your diet with essential minerals, vitamins, anti-inflammatories, antioxidants, herbs, homemade remedies, and adequate proteins. This will ensure that you rarely fall sick and will kick start a process of anti-aging, within 15 days it will start to show on your face as well.

In the end, Adarsh Somani would only like to conclude not to ignore mental health if you want to stay healthy. Stay resentment-free, practise forgiveness, empathy, and compassion, indulge in service, shed your ego and false pride, stay humble and simple and spread love.

If fitness is about looking good, then health is about feeling good.