As I get older, I become more conscious of my mental and physical health. It's easy as an entrepreneur or business person to lose track of your health - but investing in your personal health can be the best thing you do for your business.
Many of my friends now believe that with technology and a sustained focus on health & longevity, they can live past 100. They're paying attention to genetic, physiologic & biochemical makeup, cognitive function, body composition, cardiovascular performance, hormonal status, and much more. Whether they're going to live past 100 or not, I can see the daily results in the quality of their life and the way they look.
It's the reason I started working with APEX, Dr. Jeffrey Gladden's concierge medical wellness practice.
They've got me eating salads, taking supplements, and thinking about what it takes to be healthy, fit, and vital.
The goal is to enjoy life though ... Not to deprive yourself as this image portrays ...
Exercise is also an important part of the "healthy, fit, and vital" equation.
With gyms being closed during the recent Quarantine, I found another tool that I fell in love with.
Her name is Carol; an AI fitness bike that personalizes a HIIT workout for you, based on your fitness and your preferred workout length. It makes it way easier for me to fit workouts into my schedule (and way harder to justify skipping a session).
The promise is an "hour's worth" of exercise compressed into an 8-minute workout that really only has two 20-second periods of intense effort.
The science is sound. My experience is that it works for me. I've done it for about two months now. The results are undeniable (in terms of muscle tone, endurance, 20% improvement on many of the metrics tracked by the bike, etc.).
The more you use it the smarter it gets. It automatically adjusts to give you exactly the resistance you need to keep you motivated and to continue making progress.
I've been impressed. Working-out at home has always been a struggle for me. I've bought other tools for lifting or cardio, but they tend to end up as coat racks or space fillers.
Exercise has a "social" component for some people ( comes to mind). Some people need the "social" component of exercise to get through hard workouts (think Peloton or OrangeTheory.) The Carol bike doesn't fully satisfy that part of exercise ... but they do a great job of keeping the session short, fun, and gamified (so that you know where you are, how you are progressing, and where you stand in the rankings). The combination of the efficiency of the workouts - and being able to see that you are getting fitter, objectively, has been just what I needed.
Besides Carol's website, here is a link to check out their YouTube channel.
Onwards.
