FIFTY SECRETS OF FITTEST

Can you keep a secret? Better yet, can you keep 50? Can you use these secrets to change your life and your body for the better? If you did nothing other than incorporate these secrets into your daily life, in a year's time they would amount to substantial change. Here is what a fit person does
1. Always keep a water bottle and drink from it often. Water is the drink of choice, not soft drinks. Take 3 to 5 liters of fluid per day. Be cautious if you are having low sodium ( hyponatremia).
2. Look at exercise as a pleasure and privilege -- not a burden or chore. But do excercise regularly. Because gap in excercise easily cause deconditioning of the heart. Never do excercise after having meals.
3. Think twice before deciding what to eat and why, making sure that it is healthy and will give the body good nutrition. Always keep ur stomach 1/3 empty.
4. Measure intake based on activity, not how you "feel"; need mandates intake, not mood.
5. Take action to solve problems when things get emotional, instead of turning to food as a cure.
6. Start the day with a well-balanced meal.
7. Start each day with positive input from material that's listened to or read. This will help you to remain positive throughout the day.
8. Drink a minimum amount of caffeine only in the form of coffee or tea.
9. Make long-term goals and a plan of how to achieve them, leaving nothing to chance.
10. Focus on short-term goals with an emphasis on completing daily actions.
11. Live with a purpose. Wake up each day knowing what you are working toward: something "greater than" can be accomplished in a lifetime.
12. Keep a daily planner with the day's actions written down in order to keep track of what needs to be done, what has been done and what was not accomplished.
13. Review each day at the end of the day to set tomorrow's actions and plan.
14. Always make time for relaxing and rewards at scheduled times. To avoid stress from time factor, finish yr work before deadlines. Always reach before time to prevent faster heart beats. Do regular pranayama and meditation which keeps ur heart rate very slow and improves your excercise tolerance. Sell out your second cellular phone if you are having two. Its my personal observation that person who is continuously engaged on cellular phones having high risk of diabetes, hypertension and dyslipidemias and true examples are corporate workers, bank managers etc.
15. Never live an unhealthy life when on vacation.
16. See health as a privilege and not as something to take for granted. Life and death are not in your hand but healthy life always.
17. Enjoy contributing to the health of others by having a partner or friends to exercise with, as well as recruiting others who desire to get fit.
18. Learn new ways and new techniques for exercising. Avoid fast walking on hard surface and use cushioned shoes for walking to prevent knee and ankle injury.
19. Avoid monotony by taking up new forms of exercising.
20. Subscribe to health magazines to keep focused on a healthy way of life.
21. Invest in workout clothes, good tennis shoes and other apparel.
22. Never take your health for granted by taking a day off from a healthy life.
23. Know when too much of a good thing is no longer a good thing.
24. Keep a sharp mind and a positive attitude with educational and motivational material.
25. Take time to count the many blessings that are present in life each day. Always thanks to the persons or things who are having foundation role in your life- parents, family, teachers ( guru), friends, national leaders, saints, sun, water, earth, tree, god and archetypal soul, mythological character and every little things in universe who have obliged u and helped u in bringing up- in morning before getting up from bed and while going to sleep.
26. Realize that life and all things natural are a gift and should be taken care of and preserved for the health of all.
27. Brush off criticism and don't dwell on negative comments from others.
28. Attempt to bring calm and reasoning to a hostile or chaotic situation.
29. Respond to a challenge instead of reacting to what difficulties may be present. Take positive to every event in life which generates happy molecules like interferons and endorphins.
30. Know that there is so much that is not known.
31. Understand that time is limited here on Earth.
32. Learn to live without regrets and know that life is the experiences that we choose.
33. Take vitamin and minerals from natural source that support a healthy balance. Increase your fruit intakes. Take atleast one wallnut/day , 3 pc of almond and one tsp honey with 1/2 tsp of Brahmi with glassful of lukewarm water early in morning before breakfast.
34. Value organization so as not to have "clutter" in your life.
35. Value good hygiene inside -- the mind and organs and muscles -- as well as on the outside: your skin, hair, and nails.
36. Seek natural methods of health care including massage, chiropractic and naturopathic in addition to medical care. Do regular meditation.
37. Take exercise to new levels.
38. Create a schedule for ultimate health and fitness.
39. Move beyond the boundaries of weight loss and into fitness.
40. Strive to reach your dreams everyday. Never ignore your hobby. Fulfill your possible desires.
41. Live each day to its fullest. Be happy and make others happy. Fill the lives of near and dear ones with happiness.
42. Do not get into "wacky" diets and eating plans.
43. Live a balanced life -- exercise, work, family, and GOD. Do regular prayer.
44. Get adequate amounts of sleep.
45. Avoid medications and drugs of all sort unless absolutely necessary.
46. Avoid alcohol and if not possible limit its use for social occasion. Avoid tobacco in any form.
47. Do what the average person doesn't want to do.
48. Exercise discipline by following a daily regimen.
49. Take a vacation by doing activities such as jet skiing, mountain biking, hiking in the outback or going to a getaway spa.
50. Know that life is fulfilling with optimal health in the mind, spirit and body!