Julian Massler

Time flies by, decade by decade. In our 20s we are sure, we will conquer the world. In our 30s that has likely not happend the way you imagined it to. But those back pains, shoulder pains and muffin tops have replaced hangovers as your biggest health concerns since the time we were 20 somethings. Okay this decade it´s time to start planing for retirement and stay in shape. By the time we are 40 - damn where is the last decade? - we most likely have taken up different trends and fads in fitness over the years. They came and went, but nothing that you really sticked to. On the other - the financial - hand you have started paying into a retirement account and sticked to it. An automated system, that keeps investing portions of your income every month. High Intensity Training is such an automated system for your healthy retirement and I took some tools from statistics and publicly available data to estimate the real cost of not taking care of your health during your 30s, 40s and 50s. See it as a kind of a negative retirment account that eats away on your fun money during the golden years. Let´s call it some extra motivation for our left brained specimen out there.

The first part of this mini blog post series about high intensity training (HIT) dealt with the theoretical basis of antifragility of a human body and how this is also reflected in the adaptability of our species. The tendency to overreact (#dramaqueen) to external stressors has resulted in people being able to colonize every climate zone on this planet so successfully. Use this knowledge to get fit.

No, really, what is corporate wellness? "Health at the workplace" - in good German - or wellness at work describes "all activities, guidelines and grants that lead to healthier behavior of the workforce." According to this definition, wearing a helmet at a construction site would also be a wellbeing measure. What does actually wellness mean and how to enhance the wellbeing of your employees who dedicate maybe 80% of their productive time to achieve work goals?

What is the cause of the aging process? How do biological and chronological ages differ? And how can we influence our biological age, or promote anti-aging? From a certain age, we only want one thing: to remain mentally and physically fit. Few people know that it is up to us that this actually happens. To do this, however, we first have to understand what aging and anti-aging really means.