Embark on a 6 week adventure, the journey is yours, the Heroic Health Quest. You, the hero, will challenged but you will learn to embrace challenges and yell BRING IT ON!
The Heroic Health Quest Core course will prepare you mentally for the adventure ahead by providing a number of tools that you can access anytime. For many, they know what they should and shouldn't do to lead a healthy lifestyle, the obstacle is having the sticktoidness to keep it going. I have collected a number of tools over the last 40 years, that have served me well. In this course I share many of those tools and experiences.
Heroic Health Quest - Core
Separation - The Quest Begins With A Call To Adventure
Congratulations, you’ve done the hardest part: you’ve taken a real step forward. In your hands is the indisputable proof that you are willing to take a risk and set forth to become the hero of your health.
This is a quest for extraordinary heroes - about great acts of courage, kindness, and strength. In other words, it’s about you. And if you don’t feel very courageous, kind, or strong yet, don’t worry - you’re in the company of every great hero at the beginning of their journey.
Ensemble Hero: Navigating The Unknown & Staying The Course, this is a journey that can take you beyond where your ego would typically dare to venture, but you are not alone, you are in the company of heroes.
The Heroes Quest will challenge you in three areas, they include:
Separation - The Journey Begins with the Call To Adventure (Mindset, Prepare Environment)
Initiation - Crossing the Threshold - The Road of Trials and Challenges (Eat, Move, Recover)
Return - Crossing the Threshold - The Return Home (Gratitude, Celebrate)
Soon you will be entering the quest, the unknown, the darkest part of the forest. The road travelled on the quest will not be easy. Socrates says "The Choice of Hercules": Virtue or Vice: true joy and flourishing versus quick pleasures leading to sadness, depression and profound sickness.
As Phil Stutz states - we're never going to be exonerated. Every challenge is an opportunity to practice. We're always getting opportunities to practice. All of those daily small moments gives you practice for the big moments that will inevitably come. This is where we grow, how we get stronger. For many this may be the cause of much of their suffering, thinking we should be "there". During the quest we will undoubtedly experience a glitch, be mindful, catch it, see how fast you can get back up. Ray Dalio - the point of life is to evolve. Steps: goal, problems, diagnose, design, practice.
The Heroic Health Quest is not just about cataloging ideas. It's about showing up with intensity. It's about showing up from moment to moment. Let's train like our lives are at stake. The sublime comes from the mundane. Everyday we win or we learn, we have to stock up our tools and to have them ready at hand. When you start doubting yourself, feast on prior successes. Our greatest success likely came out of our biggest challenges. We have to practice our philosophy.
The Heroic Health Quest is more than just body change. It's a mental and emotional change too. We'll occasionally ask you about your overall well-being and mindset. Take a few minutes today to complete the survey
Preview of the Upcoming Week:
Day 8 - Creating A Heroic Day pt.1
Day 9 - Creating A Heroic Day pt. 2
Day 10 - Creating A Heroic Week
Day 11 - Heroic Habits
Day 12 - Focus & Celebrate
Day 13 - Weekly Review & Measurement Day
Day 14 - No Lesson
Moment by moment. Wave a magic wand, what does your ideal day look like? Creating an amazing day over time means creating an amazing life. The Hero must be the architect of their ideal day. Today is the day. Not tomorrow or next week, today is the day. Seize the day via as seize the moment.
What is Heroic AI (ancient intelligence)? Our bodies have a natural rhythm that if we use it to our advantage we can become more productive while using less energy. Remind yourself of three connections: 1. your day starts the night before, 2. your AI drives the rest of the day, 3. you have more control over your AM and PM bookends, master them. Repeated beingness. Get clarity on that, who are you being?
Why weeks? It's a relatively easy way to zoom out to see the past and future on our Heroic Health Quest Map. Where are you? Years are long, days are short, weeks are strong. We can't create great weeks without great days and great moments. Let's create great weeks
You don’t choose your future, you choose your habits and they change your future. Habits are a behavior design so if things are not working as expected it’s more of a design issue, not a character issue. So we want to set up automatic systems; if this happens, then that will happen.
Create clear targets and focus your attention. Attention = Focus = Attention. Your focus in this moment is your present reality. Your past is a collection of past presents. Your future will be based on your moments now. A healthy hero will be able to place their mind where they want when they want for however long they want.
Let's review some strategies to help stay the course on our quest.
Review of the main points of the past week.
Initiation - Crossing The Threshold - The Road of Trials and Challanges
It takes a great deal of courage and faith to accept what is yet to be known, and surrender to living into it, rather than anxiously trying to control it – or attempt to revert back to a familiar path that is no longer there, or no longer works. Deepening of the struggles as a result of entering the unknown.
Let’s start writing that Hero’s manual right now. Take a quick inventory of your experience so far.
In terms of nutrition, fitness, health, athletic performance, and the process of change itself, what’s already in your “manual”? What skills do you already posses?
Think about how open you are right now to changing your mindset, habits, and physical body.
Are you willing to just flow with the Heroic Health Quest process and seek help where needed, or are you resisting being told what to do?
Knowing your real reasons for doing the Heroic Health Quest can powerfully affect your success and willingness to change. It can also help ensure your coach knows what’s important to you. Here we will go through an exercise to help determine your why.
Imagine you could get a map from the future. The map shows you exactly what you want to happen with your Heroic Health Quest.
It’s like “Future You” arrived at the destination and sent a map back in time to tell you what it’s like.
The Hero’s Letter tells you what you want. Not what you don’t want.
Today we’ll talk about how to track your Heroic Health Quest progress.
Every Sunday from now on will be a recap of the week before — an “off” day, so to speak.
We'll also ask you regularly for some information about how you're doing. Please set aside some time to answer these questions, because they'll help us help you.
The "Sunday Ritual"
Also, starting today, we’d like you to schedule a little time to have a “Sunday Ritual.”
Your Sunday Ritual will vary depending on the week as we introduce new things for you to think about and practice.
Do an experiment on everything you usually do. Can we use the same experimenters formula for changing your nutrition and exercise habits? Yes.
So today, how about an Experiment Day of your own?
Knowing where you are can help you make the proper decisions, and keep you focused on what will really make a difference.
Determining where you are is a combination of three things
1. What you know
2. What you do
3. What you do... consistently
Today, think about what “decisions” you’re realistically and honestly willing to make over the following months of your Heroic Health Quest.
Don’t wait for the “perfect” day, “perfect” body, or “perfect” schedule full of free time to come. It never will.
Today, you’ll collect your first measurements and record them on your weekly progress worksheet.
For many people, Sunday is a perfect time to "reboot and refresh".
You can plan workout times for the upcoming week. Get back on track and clean the slate if needed. And prepare for the inevitable ups and downs of the Heroic Health Quest journey.
The Weekly Ritual is part of being proactive, a key element to HHQ success.
The Return - Crossing the Threshold - The Return Home
When the adventure has been lived, and the hero has accomplished something of value – by being able to penetrate into, and be penetrated by, the source of all life – the journey still requires him or her to return back across the threshold of mythic life to the day-to-day that was left behind.
Upon return, the responsibility remains to bring forth what is of value, and to not let it be wasted or withered within, due to excessive self interest or self concern. The ultimate aim is to be of service to one’s community, which is the true joy in life – entering into the psychic territory of interconnectedness, where the role of the giver and the role of the receiver become indistinguishable.
This week, you might be feeling a little displaced or lost. When we create a grand vision of how things “ought to be”, it’s natural to feel a bit of disappointment afterwards. People are often happier about the idea or vision of something than the thing itself.
What IS rather than “what should be”
What IS, is real. It is authentic. It is who you truly are, in all your warty, majestically flawed, and gloriously human splendour.
It is this moment, RIGHT NOW. It is the deliciousness of imperfection that is honestly experienced and the testament to a life lived. It is a celebration of gratitude and awareness.
Maintenance IS a state where you don’t have to worry as much about learning new things. You can cruise and relax. You have a great toolbox full of useful habits that you can pull out whenever you need them.
However, you still need to practice your good habits, even if they come easy now. (Just like you brush your teeth every day. We hope.) Habits require reinforcement. Daily practice is the only way to do that.
Baseline
Life — and nutrition and fitness — operate in a range, or a spectrum, from “better” to “worse” choices.
We’ve emphasized how important it is to think in these shades of gray, rather than being black-or-white, all-or-nothing.
Your baseline
You need to pay attention and be mindful, consistently reviewing and refreshing your basic good habits.
And you need to define your “seatbelt” — your “baseline”.
How would you define “balance”?
Does it mean “everything is the same”? Or “my life is always perfectly level”?
We think it means Everything is in its place… dynamically.
In other words, “balance” isn’t a static state. It’s not putting things down and leaving them there, forever.
Balance means “a constant movement and adjustment”.
Just like maintenance.
Today, you’ll collect your measurements and record them on your weekly progress worksheet.
Review the main points of the past week.
To stay lean and healthy, you need to give back. Fitness, wellness, and health are a shared project. We’re all in this together.
Be your own hero
Today, ask yourself:
What have I avoided doing because of my worries about weight, body image, dietary regime, or fitness level? What has that avoidance cost me?
What do I dream of doing? How can I do that thing?
Be the hero of your own movie, and start living NOW. Choose your own adventure — and enjoy your happy ending.
You’re a Heroic Health Quest ambassador now — and whether you realize it or not, you can inspire others. You can do tremendous good in the world.
Inspire. Take a moment, and think about the people who have inspired you. Imagine them clearly, and how they affected your life.
As you’ve probably figured out, you don’t change people’s behaviour by telling them what to do. You change their lives by inspiring them.
By helping them find their own way. By being a positive example and building meaningful relationships — whether that’s by being a teacher, a coach, or a friend.
Anticipate, plan, strategize
This is the way of the Heroic Health Warrior.
Life is unpredictable, sure. But you think proactively now.
Your plan for the future
Here is the plan we would like you to take forward with you as you go out into the wild.
Today, you’ll collect your measurements and record them on your weekly progress worksheet.
Review the main points of the past week and complete the survey "How's Your Outlook"
About the teacher
Randy H
Randy developed an engaged passion for health and fitness at an early age. At age 10 he started studying and learning about weight training and nutrition. His journey to learn and experiment has spanned over 40 years. Resist and Persist
