#16 - Enabling High Performance through Healthy Habits

Healthy habits are definitely a key high performance enabler. If our goal is to perform at our highest level day in day out in whatever we do in life then building and maintaining your healthy habits is very important. Kim Nystrom is a modern day adventurer and superhero: Europe's fittest 50 year-old, climbed mountains in 4 continents and just a great example of how to pursuit and conquer your dreams and goals regardless of your circumstances. Kim is also a crossfit and weightlifting coach so working out and optimising one's health is a big part of his life. This is a very inspirational episode as Kim shares his experiences and tips to reach your goals.

Topics discussed:

  • How to jump from 9-5 to chasing your own dreams and goals

  • Effects of surrounding yourself with inspirational people

  • Kim's adventure of climbing Mt. Manaslu (8000m+)

  •  Falling in love with the process rather than the outcome

  • Accepting the fact that it will hurt and require ton of work to reach your goals

  • Overcoming your internal koala -discussion

  • Making only small changes over longer period of time enables building sustainable healthy habits

  • Increasing functional movement (such as taking stairs instead of elevator) can be a great and easy addition to your healthy habit toolkit

  • There is no one-size-fits-all solution to health - building healthy habits is also a lot about listening to your body and doing activities which feels good for you

  • Importance of recovery, sleep and workouts

  • Breathing exercises as tools to improve recovery

Make sure to check out Kim's website and links. He also organises expeditions to exotic locations around the world.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimnystrom/
https://kimnystrom.fi/
https://vuorelle.fi/

Niko Ratala