American businessman and philanthropist, Warren Buffet, famously highlighted the need for a holistic lifestyle with a hypothetical story:

‘A genie appears and offers you the car of your choice - any make, any model, any colour - it’s yours. But there’s a catch: you’ll have this car for the rest of your life. How do you treat this car? You’ll read the manual repeatedly, keep it garaged, and fix the tiniest scratches to avoid rusting. The car would mean everything to you because it has to last a lifetime. Now, you’re not really going to only have one car during your lifetime. But, you only get one mind; you only get one body. And it’s what you do right now, today, that determines how your mind and body will operate ten, twenty, and thirty years from now.’ 

Maintaining a healthy body and mind is a multifaceted process. You may engage with exercise, healthy eating or mindfulness practice, but finding the right balance and consistency is a skill in itself. Our era of accelerated technological progress has given rise to the normalisation of apps in helping us with our everyday lives. You may have exercise, meditation, step counters or recipe apps on your phone or tablet, but engaging with multiple sources becomes more of a hindrance than a helping hand. Embracing holistic living to nurture a healthy body and mind requires simplicity. That’s where 4improve comes in.

What Is A Holistic Lifestyle?

In its simplest terms, a holistic lifestyle refers to caring for the whole self - mind, body and soul. Elements such as diet, exercise, self-reflection, sleep, and mindfulness are interconnected systems that govern your mental and physical wellness. By connecting to each component in a meaningful way, you take authority over your well-being. 

Four principal lifestyle areas, central to your overall health, create the foundation of the 4improve app. The easy-to-use format oversees exercise, meditation, diet, and trackers. Users can choose whether to focus on one area to begin with or divide their attention. Whatever your preference, enhancing your well-being requires three actions: awareness, goal-setting and determination. 

4improve provides essential information surrounding healthy living and encourages you to reflect on your current engagement with each lifestyle domain. The philosophy behind 4improve is that big changes start with small steps. By setting targets and tracking your progress across multiple areas within one app, a holistic lifestyle not only becomes achievable, but practical. Improvements in the way you look and feel, combined with in-app goal accomplishment spur your determination to create ongoing targets. 

The Elements Of 4improve

Exercise

Physical activity has significant health benefits. Regular exercise can reduce the risk of depression by up to 30% and cardiovascular disease by up to 35%. 4improve inspires you to begin daily stretches and/or high-intensity interval training (HIIT). The app directs users to select which body parts need the most attention before offering target stretches and provides a catalogue of 10-minute HIIT workouts for beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels. Each exercise is demonstrated via video so all you need is a small space and willpower.

Meditation

Meditation helps you to focus on the present moment, enabling you to focus your mind and reduce negative emotions. The 4improve app contains a bank of guided meditations that can be used to relax and destress as part of a holistic lifestyle. Each option varies in its focus and length, providing flexibility for busy lives. A large selection of sounds and music can also be found in this section, categorised for study, sleep, stress reduction, and deep concentration. Like and download buttons allow you to organise your favourite sounds and meditations.

Nutrition

Lack of progress with healthy living can often be put down to insufficient knowledge of nutrition and poor meal planning. The nutrition section of the 4improve app provides an information breakdown for a huge variety of foods, including the number of calories per 100g or meal. When individual vitamins and minerals are selected, associated foods are displayed facilitating improvements in vitamin-poor diets.

Meal planning as part of a holistic lifestyle helps to prevent unhealthy choices and snacking. Using the app, meals can be selected by scrolling through hundreds of delicious options or by filtering by ingredients. The meal planning feature includes breakfast, lunch, dinner, desserts, beverages, and snacks, each with a list of ingredients, an easy-to-follow recipe, and the option to change the number of servings. 

Trackers

Many people are surprised by their daily water intake, calorie count, and the number of steps when they first begin tracking. The awareness that these trackers bring promotes goal-setting. The 4improve app enables you to create targets, set reminders and monitor your daily, weekly or monthly progress. What starts as a daily goal soon becomes a habit and, before long, you will value the long-term health benefits. 

Download 4improve Today - Embrace A Holistic Lifestyle

Adopting a holistic lifestyle is a surefire way to improve your physical and mental well-being. 4improve is the only app comprising exercise, meditation, nutrition, and trackers to facilitate small changes and monitor progress in one place. 

For a short time only, the 4improve app is FREE to download. Don’t delay - join others who have already started their journey. Download 4improve on the App Store and Google Play.