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Easy Biohacks You Can Implement Today to Achieve Greater Health and Wellbeing

Biohacks take minimal effort, but have huge benefits for your health and wellbeing.

Ashley Richmond
5 min readJun 5, 2020
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Get your heart rate up at least once per hour.

At least once an hour, get up and do some sort of activity that gets your heart rate up. For example, try one of the following:

  • 20 push ups
  • 10 lunges
  • 10 squats
  • 10 burpees
  • 10 jumping lunges or squats

Sometimes I’ll lunge my way around the house. If I want some water, I’ll lunge to the kitchen. If I need to check the laundry, I’ll lunge to the laundry room.

We all know that sitting is the new smoking, and so it’s vital that you’re always getting up and moving around. This type of activity also simulates how our ancestors would have lived hundreds of years ago, and thus how we have evolved to function. We are not built for sitting for long periods of time.

This will also help to increase your aerobic fitness as well as strength, as this repetitive movement allows for neuromuscular adaptation, which makes your body more efficient at these movements, thus improving form as well…

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Ashley Richmond
Ashley Richmond

Written by Ashley Richmond

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