It is difficult to prescribe health or wellness advice. Number one you never know someone’s situation fully. Also what is considered healthy is always debatable in a roundabout way. Situations are always changing, to be concise you always need to make adjustments no matter your circumstances. Adjustments are a given and there is nothing besides basic concepts. Exercise, fresh air, a balanced diet and so it goes.

Say you are doing strength training and also sports fighting. How do you balance that for example? It has to be tailored to the individual mostly. Say the individual has chronic inflammation as an example do they rely on drugs to treat it or do they change their lifestyle? This is an individual’s choice and considering if training and fighting is a passion why would they stop?

What if the individual in question was also always getting sick, has constant infections, finds it hard to keep in touch with friends and have relationships? You can in some way feel like blaming the individual. You may question their lifestyle choices. Yet in most cases nobody ever will question the way people live. It is a private situation tailored to that person and only they can decide. Yet also it isn’t seen as their doing.

Most people would encourage them to overcome the obstacle rather than step around it. It has to be about direct engagement rather than making a workaround. The truth of the matter is the person in this situation also has suicidal ideations, depression amongst other problems. If you are in a situation where your need to compete in sports (in this case sports fighting) is your passion. The constant pain, the mental and physical discomfort. These challenges are supposed to drive you on.

May I ask where you are driving yourself to? Don’t focus on the beginning, you must think about the ending first. Where will you end up? Yet these considerations never come to light. At the same time I am only using the example as a way to consider the ways we make adjustments in our lives. I am focused on empowerment yet that comes at the cost of not competing. There is no glory, there is just a sustainable inner peace and a desire to keep working on oneself. Yet that is my point, it is the individual’s choice.