Episode 560: Low Effort Healthy Habits You Can Do With A Busy Schedule

0:00Hi guys, it's Tony Robbins. You're listening to Habits and Hustle. Crush it. Hello everybody. Welcome to another solo episode of Habits and Hustle. Next up, I want to talk about healthy habits. I think that there are some habits that we can adopt that really don't take that much effort at all and doesn't really require really that much that can really optimize your life like tenfold. And I want to go over them super quickly because they're easy and they're important. So let's do it. Okay. Amazing. Okay. This is super simple, super, super quick. The first thing that I do every morning is I drink basically a 32 ounce glass of room temperature water and I squeeze a lemon in it.

0:51Number one, I feel like it totally detoxes my body and it starts my day off right because I'm hydrating. I'm not someone who loves water. I actually hate water. So I have to be a little bit more premeditated of drinking it during the day so I actually drink enough. And so that way I'm then getting in a huge amount, like two or three glasses at a time right in the morning. So I'm starting off my day right with that lemon. And that's how I take my supplements. So I take all of my supplements with that big glass of water that is, like I said, 32 ounces, I think. I'm going to show you the size. Oh, nice.

1:29This is it. This is the size of the glass. And so this is probably, like I said, was this 32 ounces? No. Oh, it could be. I don't know. Yeah, because 8 ounces is probably like where your lower thumb is right now. Yeah, I would say it. Definitely more than 16. Okay. It's about 20. Whatever. It's a big glass. It's a big glass of water, okay? And I take my supplements. I take omega-3s. I've been taking that forever. I take truniogen, which is the NAD precursor. You take it and it basically helps your body produce NAD. I've been taking truniogen for, again, like six years also. I take an antioxidant called NAC.

2:08That's really good. And what else do I take? And then I kind of, I sometimes take a probiotic. Do you do magnesium? Sometimes at night, but that's not one of my go-to. I don't like to take so many supplements. I just take, you know, I have, I take a certain amount with the water and then I make sure that I walk multiple times a day versus just taking one long walk. I think it's really important for you to move your body multiple times a day versus, you know, let's say moving for one big chunk of time and then being sedentary the rest of the time. It's good to kind of move around and like get your blood circulating multiple times.

2:46So I'd rather do three 10-minute walks than like one 30-minute walk. Can I say a game changer for me has been my Fitbit. I usually don't like to keep these on because I'm so bad at keeping watches on my hand. I always end up taking them off and never put them on. But I've been pretty diligent about it the last few weeks. And it's been great because you gamify your steps. And I love doing that. And I do like doing that where I'll split everything up. So I'll just make sure I'm walking. And it reminds me. It's like, stop being lazy. Get up. It's been an hour. A hundred percent. I use my Apple Watch.

3:15And I think that the one good thing about a lot of these trackers can be kind of like they overcompensate or overestimate what you're doing. Oh, yeah. But what it does is it keeps you alert to the fact that, oh, yeah, I should be getting up, right? I am walking. I think of all the trackers, the one thing that is pretty good on all of them is the steps. The steps, yeah. I never listen to the steps. The calories are, they overestimate calories so much on there. There's no way you're burning that. But I do love the step counter. Steps counting has been around for a long time. So I trust those. I use it for the step counter.

3:50Yeah, yeah. And so steps are really important. I try to get, like everybody, I know that the number, by the way, 10 ,000 steps is very arbitrary. If you can get 8 ,000, that's great too. But I like to go for 10. If I see myself getting to 12 or whatever else, I'm like so excited. I got 17 the other day. That's amazing. That is amazing. I want to work. I like to work out first thing. So I drink my water. I tend to make my kids their breakfast and their lunch. And then I want to work out right after that. And the reason why is I want to start my day off on the right foot. I want to be able to sweat.

4:23I think the sweat activates my brain to work better for the rest of the day. It gives me way more productivity. And cognitively, I'm way more on top of it. So that's another big one. The other thing I wanted to say, a couple other ones. I do love the sauna. I love the sauna. If you don't have a sauna, you can get a sauna blanket. You can get all sorts of different ways. You can go use a sauna. There's tons of places now where you can use a sauna. What I love about it is, again, I love the whole idea of sweating out your toxins. I think it's really good. I like doing the hot cold. So I do have a cold plunge now, which I'm very happy about.

5:07For those of you who don't have a cold plunge, you can take a three-minute cold shower. It's just, it's very effective and it gives you that same type of thing, right? The cold and hot therapy is super, super good for recovery, inflammation, circulation. The cold is great for also, I think it's called like the brown fat that you have in your body. It's great. Some other ones, easy ones that you can do is I fall asleep to meditation music. I think I'm not a meditator as most of you probably know because I talk about that. But something that kind of calms me and soothes me is meditation music and falling asleep in that way is really a big one.

5:47Meditation music, do you ever fall asleep to like spa music? Is that the same thing? Similar. Similar? Yeah, similar for sure. I love spa music. I do too. I weight train at least four times a week. Super important, especially as you get older. the the best way to increase muscle mass on your body ladies please listen to this is to resistant train very very very important and you are not going to get bulky trust me you're not going to trying for five years it's it's exactly nowhere near bulk it's so annoying it's very very difficult and also it's a great way to increase your testosterone in your body right the most natural effective way to do it is is to weight train so especially after the age of 40 i cannot tell people how how important this is to be weight training a minimum of three times a week for 20 minutes a time at a time you don't have to be doing hard core hard hard weights but get into the practice of resistant training there is no other fitness modality well that will give you the same bang for your buck i promise you a couple other ones that are really important that kind of keep me on point is prepping and having healthy food options available to you or else that will be one of your biggest demises because when you're hungry and you're starving and there's nothing around you'll you'll tend to grab whatever is available chips chocolate whatever so having having some healthy options with you or around you is a game changer some of these are pretty obvious but sometimes sometimes the most obvious things need to be repeated uh i'm trying to oh another thing i love is and i call this a healthy habit is listening to comedy like watching some stand-up oh i love that because laughing is so important for your health that's great and for your happiness and it like it like it increases my serotonin it like gets my endorphin i love it it like really makes me happy.

7:49That's a great dopamine hit that doesn't require you being on, you know, uh, social media. I mean, you can, I guess, look at it on social media, but the whole concept is like laughing. It like, it automatically, who doesn't like to laugh? It's so good for your overall health. So I try to listen to comedy daily. If the comedy is good enough too, it'll be an ab workout if you're laughing that hard. That's right. Exactly. Exactly. And, and these are things that are like simple to, A lot of these things are very simple ways to kind of just be overall more healthy and have actually adopt some self-care into that, right?

8:25Like just things like that. So walking multiple times a day, drinking a glass of water first thing in the morning. And if you're not someone who is a water drinker, hydration is so important. So then plan it out. You know, like another trick I used to do until I had these other ways I would drink my water was I'd put a bunch of elastic bands around my cup or my bottle. And at the end of the day, all those elastic bands had to be taken off. And if they weren't, that would tell me, like it would trigger my brain. Okay, I take off the elastic band. I got to drink another glass of water. And so I wasn't allowed to go to sleep until all the elastic, all 10 elastic bands were off because hydration is so important.

9:08People mistake hunger when they're actually thirsty and they end up eating more because of that. It's great for also great for your skin, for your bones. It's great for everything. So that's another thing. Would you put the elastic bands on in different spots so you'd have to drink to that level or they were just all on there and it would just remind you like you had to just keep taking like a big few sips? It would remind me that, not just a few steps, because I don't do it that way. I did it for like, okay, once I take off a band, I had to drink eight ounces of water. Oh, got it. Because that way, that's how I'm going to get my daily, my amount, my quantity in, plus more.

9:43That's pretty good. So each band represented an eight ounce glass of water that I would just like drink up. That's very smart. I like that. And I just actually stopped doing that maybe a couple years ago because I've put things in place. It's like, of course, I drink my water in the morning. And then when I work out, I drink a 1.5 liter bottle. So I know I'm getting that in. And then afterwards, like, so I have all of these benchmarks and places in my life where then it eliminates my, it eliminates the ability for me to kind of fail, really. And so basically that was basically it. The weight training, the lemon in the water, the elastic bands.

10:22If you're not hydrating enough, that's a great one. falling asleep to meditation music, listening to comedy for 10 minutes a day to make you laugh, walking multiple times a day. The weight training, super important, especially if you're over 40. Is there anything else that you want to add? Oh, the sauna, sweating first thing in the morning to be really more productive during the day, doing the hot cold therapy. So you can go into a sauna and then use a cold shower, or you can go to a gym and use their sauna, or you can get a sauna a blanket. That also really is effective. But I love the hot cold therapies.

10:56Really good. I do as well. I would say my one for water is buying a reusable water bottle. It's been a game changer for me because there's so many times when you're out and you're thirsty and all you want is some water. And that would have been a great opportunity for you to get some water in and hydrate yourself. But you're out and you just don't really want to go buy a bottle or maybe it's just inconvenient for you. So I love having a water bottle always on hand. And I think a reusable one is just better. Once you get a reusable water bottle, you start tasting the plastic of plastic water bottles and you're just like, ugh, it's disgusting.

11:27It starts hitting you in a way that, I mean, I really don't like drinking out of plastic water bottles anymore. I can really feel it. So yeah, buy a reusable one. Always have it on you. It's the best. Oh, the one I just forgot also, by the way, was having healthy options around you so you're not grabbing junk around you. So take a few minutes and either meal prep a little bit so you have like healthy proteins around you or you're taking them with you as a snack it could be i'm not a big to be honest with you i'm very conscientious of what kind of nuts i eat because people tend to overeat uh nuts almonds will make you break out you know only some people not most like you may have a problem with almonds no almonds in general are really big acne causer it's just not discussed very much but they they can okay i'm talking more but maybe that you're probably right i don't i'm i don't know about that but i would say that what i think what happens is people don't know what a real portion is of nuts and they take a handful and a handful people say they'll take a handful of nuts when you're hungry is usually four or five portions which is in your whole daily intake of your fats and your calories so what a real portion of an of nuts are is usually like six nuts which is not at all filling i mean who eats six nuts unless you're like so disciplined which i mean that's really hard to do so i love eating an apple a day that's what i do i'm a big apple person because apples are super fiber-filled and satiating.

12:47I'll eat like two apples a day just because it gives you so much fiber and the water content's really high. So I try to eat a lot of foods that have a high water content for the same reason. Wait, two apples? You must never go to the doctor. Do you like carrots? I love carrots. Carrots are one of my favorite goatee snacks. I'll just chop them up at the beginning of the week. I don't like baby carrots. I think they have too much water in them. I don't like baby carrots either. But I like regular carrots. And I will peel and slice them and have them in like a container for the whole week. I can finish like a bunch of carrots in one sitting.

13:22I love carrots. I love carrots too. I love jicama. Jicama is my favorite snack too. Oh, jicama is a really good one too. Jicama is amazing. I also love cucumbers, but jicama is like my favorite. Do you, kohlrabi? You like kohlrabi. Kohlrabi is delicious. I've never had that. You slice it really thin. You put like a little olive oil and salt and pepper. It's like such a good snack. Oh, I never knew that one. I also love fennel. Oh, yeah. I have a thing with fennel. I'm not crazy about it. But my family loves fennel. Yeah. I also love radishes. But this is what I'm saying. These are ways you can save yourself a ton of calories and a ton of heartache.

13:54Right? Because you may just kind of screw up your entire nutrition or your health by just basically snacking on the wrong food. Not even intentionally. Just because there was nothing else around. Right? So be prepared. Be prepared. Yeah, that's it. That was great. Thanks. Join the Facebook group. Follow Jen everywhere. Let me know, guys. Also, if there is a healthy hack, healthy habit that's really helped, you know, be a game changer for you and helped you optimize your overall health. Let me know. Thanks.