52 Week Health Challenge


It’s not difficult to come up with different ways to make our lives better. What is difficult is our ability to take good healthy ideas, and turn them into long-lasting, consistent habits.

Let’s add 52 healthy habits to our already busy lives...


Let’s add 52 healthy habits to our already busy lives...


52 Week Health Challenge


It’s not difficult to come up with different ways to make our lives better. What is difficult is our ability to take good healthy ideas, and turn them into long-lasting, consistent habits.

The 52 week challenges? Here they are:

The 52 week challenges? Here they are:

1.


Eat a handful of green leafy vegetables every meal, every day.

2.


Plank for as long as I possibly can twice a day.

3.


Go for an adventure hike in the woods/mud with my kids and/or wife.

4.


Drink a detox tea every morning w/ lemon, turmeric, apple cider vinegar, etc.

5.


5 Sun Salutations when I wake up, and before bed.

5.


5 Sun Salutations when I wake up, and before bed.

6.


Up at 5am, in bed at 9pm.

7.


Crow pose as long as a possibly can twice a day.

8.


Take triphala every morning (I had never heard of it either).

9.


Gratitude journal before bed every night.

10.


Side leg lifts until I can't, both legs, once a day.

11.


Drink red wine with friends/family - 1 cup a night.

12.


Handful of beans and lentils with every meal every day.

13.


Waking up my sleepy glutes.

14.


Play a board game with my kids/wife.

15.


Clearing out all the cluttered spaces in my life.

16.


Intermittent fasting all 7 days.

17.


Complete Michael Greger's Daily Dozen every day.

18.


Write a nice note to a different person every day for a week.

19.


Walk 12,000 steps every day.

20.


Breathe through max cold as long as I can stand it.

21.


One random act of kindness every day.


21.


One random act of kindness every day.

22.


Compost/recycle everything the family consumes.

23.


Flax and Psyllum ladoo every night after dinner (this is a weird one).

24.


No alarm clock, just go to bed early enough, and hope for the best.

25.


Create a checklist every day before breakfast.

26.


100 push ups in the AM and in the PM (plenty of breaks in between).

27.


Journal every night before bed.

28.


Wall sit for as long as I can, twice a day.

29.


Whole, home-made, plant-based meals.

30.


No screens (unless totally vital for work).

31.


HIIT walk.

32.


60oz of water every day.

33.


Meditate for at least 10 minutes.

34.


Hari Bachi Boo (stop eating every meal at 80% full).

35.


No screens or TV for 2 hours before bed.


36.


Clean out all the clutter in all of my domains - car, closet, office, etc.


36.


Clean out all the clutter in all of my domains - car, closet, office, etc.


37.


Remove any and all bad-for-you snacks in the house.

38.


Headstand for as long as I can in the AM and PM.

39.


100 press ups and back bends, every day.

40.


Run as fast as I can as long as I can every morning.

41.


No sugar other than one serving of fruit per day.

42.



20+ minutes of yoga.

43.


Eat one whole beet every day.

44.


Volunteer and/or donate in some way every day.

45.


Drink Hibiscus tea every night after dinner.

46.


Take 20 deep breaths in and out in the AM and PM.

47.


Consume a handful of steamed spinach with balsamic vinegar w/ breakfast.

48.


Eat a different exotic mushroom (all legal and good for you) every day.

49.


Foam roll for 5 minutes in the evening before bed.


50.


30 minutes of cardiovascular exercise.

51.


No dessert after meals (this is a hard one for me).

52.

Green tea every morning.


BeBetter Challenge Videos



Introduction to the habit challenge



Week 1 - Handful of leafy greens at every meal



Week 2 - Plank for as long as I can, every day



Week 3 - Nature hike every day


Week 4 - Detox tea every morning



Week 5 - Sun Salutations every morning



Week 6 - Go to sleep by 9pm, and wake up by 5am every day



Week 7 - Crow pose, as long as I can, once a day


Week 8 - Triphala (dried up indian gooseberry)



Week 9 - Gratitude journal every night before bed



Week 10 - Resistance band side leg lifts



Week 11 - One glass of red wine every evening


Week 12 - 1/2 cup of lentils with every meal



Week 13 - Waking up my sleepy glutei



Week 14 - Board game with the family every night



Week 15 - One full beet, every day


Week 16 - Breathing through uncomfortable cold


Week 17 - Michael Greger’s plant-based daily dozen (from “How Not to Die”)