Originally published on digitalfitnessworld.com.
According to fitness expert Eugene Pallisco, there are many ways to live a healthier lifestyle. You can eat better, improve your sleep, and exercise more.
The best way to achieve optimal health, though, is to integrate all three into your daily routine. By taking a holistic approach to fitness, you can ensure that you’re specifically addressing three of the biggest factors of a healthy lifestyle.
Improving any one of the three things above will certainly lead to you being healthier, but doing all three in a holistic way is best. Here are some of the main benefits of holistic fitness and why there’s such a trend toward adopting it.
It Encourages Sustainability
Many of us have gone on fad diets, gone to bed early, and started exercising. But many of us have also fallen off the wagon at times and fallen back into our unhealthy routines.
Part of the reason for this is that many people tend to approach fitness in a “quick fix” way. In other words, we try a new fad diet in hopes of being healthier, but we end up adopting something that just isn’t sustainable.
When you approach fitness holistically, you’re forcing yourself to think in sustainable ways rather than in ways that will simply transform your body. That’s because you’re considering the multiple aspects of fitness, which, as mentioned, includes not just what we eat but how we sleep and how we exercise.
It Forces Mindfulness
Mindfulness is a term that’s thrown around a lot in wellness circles today, and it means many different things. In this regard, it refers to acting in deliberate ways after thinking about what we’re doing before we do it.
In this way, mindfulness can be applied to how we approach eating. For example, it can refer to ensuring that we take the time each morning to prepare a healthy lunch that we take to work with us rather than having to make a last-minute—and often unhealthy—decision on the fly when we’re feeling hungry.
The same mindful approach can be applied to our sleep and exercise patterns. When we engage in holistic fitness, we’re more likely to think about all aspects of our lives this way. So, we may decide to go for a walk on our lunch break instead of scrolling through social media or reading a book before bed instead of watching TV.
These simple yet smart decisions add up throughout the day to help us create better well-being.
It Resonates
Many fitness professionals are adopting holistic fitness because it resonates with a wide audience. Eugene Pallisco says people understand why a well-rounded approach to fitness works because so many are experiencing troubles with it.
In other words, they understand the positive impact that eating right, sleeping right, and exercising can have on their overall well-being.
As such, an increasing number of fitness professionals are taking this same well-rounded approach to their jobs. They’re helping people assess their current overall well-being and then helping them set goals for what they can do inside and outside of “sessions” to improve.
They can then serve as a source of continuous support and motivation for their clients, which helps to enhance their fitness.
About Eugene Pallisco
Fitness expert and licensed trainer Eugene Pallisco works in Dallas, Texas. Since he began working with motivational fitness mentors in high school, Eugene has devoted a significant amount of time to sculpting and molding his training philosophy, which is centered on improving others. Before starting his private training firm in the fitness industry, he gained more expertise by working one-on-one with gym patrons after beginning as a group fitness teacher.