You may be familiar with the phrase, “perception is reality,” and it’s never more true than when developing a healthy mindset.
Category: Mindset
4 tips for reducing cancer risk
Lots of Americans will be wearing pink this month in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Awareness also includes doing your part to learn more about how a healthy lifestyle can help prevent breast cancer, and many other types of cancers.
Celebrate the new season with one healthy change
It’s time to celebrate the work you’ve done to improve your health and fitness. Take a moment to think about all you’ve accomplished this year. Then, add one new healthy change from the following list of strategies from EXOS as you look ahead to the next season’s challenge!
7 Habits of Great Workout Partners
When working toward a health or fitness goal, finding an accountability partner can help keep you honest and motivated.
The Top 7 Recovery Options to Build Resiliency of Body and Mind
Resiliency requires a balance of both physical and mental health. Some physical recovery options also support mindset and resiliency, or the ability to recover from everyday physical or mental stress. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), stress accounts for two-thirds of family doctor visits. Other studies show an even higher...
Define Motivation in 3 Simple Steps
Staying motivated is important when your goal is good health. But, is good health enough motivation to effect change? EXOS has put a lot of study into what helps us to reach higher, achieve more and improve our performance and health. It all starts with resolving to make health a priority and developing a mindset...
4-Pillar Foundation Series: Develop a healthy mindset
Healthy living starts with getting through a lot of mental barriers and deciding that healthy pursuits are worth the effort. That’s what we at EXOS call “Mindset,” and it’s an essential pillar of our human performance philosophy. How do you change the way you’ve always thought about yourself and your ability to become the healthiest...
7 Steps to Recommit to Your Goals or Start Fresh
We usually start each year with the best of intentions, but abandon those complicated or seemingly unattainable resolutions within just a few weeks. Luckily, the experts at EXOS have provided these seven simple steps to getting started or refreshing your routine at any point on your journey: Find your reason to train. Defining your goal...
7 Exercises to Improve Mental Health
May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and it’s a great time to tune in and learn more about this hot topic that affects us all. In most cases, it turns out that what we’re missing most when it comes to healthy mindset is connection—with each other, with our surroundings and with ourselves. Here are a...
The Science of Stress
Stress is a state of mind. It is defined as a state of mental or emotional strain or tension resulting from adverse or very demanding circumstances. It’s often difficult to understand the impact our state of mind has on our health, yet stress can have quite a negative impact on the body. The consequences of extreme...