Dan Hyman

Just some of the health that we changed in 2025. Lots of differing circumstances, but a common goal of health progress. I think health progress can be the foundation for growth in lots of areas. I’m excited to unlock that for even more this year. —— In an industry where talk is easy, judge me on my work. Link is in my bio to enquire about working together.

My own health journey, & the reason why I hold it in such high regard. Natural ups & downs throughout, but honestly, so far just a long-term game of learning, discipline & fine-tuning my routine. Some of the most important learnings that I have made in this time: ▪️Health is essential. Don’t wait until it gets taken away from you or someone close to you to realise the importance. ▪️Consistency is everything. Getting healthy doesn’t count for much, the value comes in staying healthy. If you can stay consistent for long enough, you will figure it out as you go & end up in a pretty good place. ▪️Health requires effort, when you’ve decided that you are willing to bring that effort, success comes down to the direction of that effort. ▪️The ultimate goal with health routine is automisation. If it becomes your life, you will resent it eventually as it starts to impact other areas. Set it up so it looks after itself, allowing you to focus your time/effort on the other important things in life. ▪️You will set an example. Your partner/ kids/ family/ close friends will all start to become healthier as they see you do your thing. Maybe the biggest flex of all. ▪️Trends will always come & go. Good health always circles back to doing the fundamentals (nutrition, training, sleep, stress management) well & consistently.

Talking all things ‘six-packs’. ⁣ ⁣ Overrated? Underrated? Important? Not important? Who am I to judge. ⁣ ⁣ Goals are individual. ⁣ ⁣ I can’t decide what they are for you, but what I can do is set you up to achieve them.⁣ ⁣ That’s the reason @eat.look.feel exists. ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ Thank-you for the write up @mensfitnessuk 🗞

Client Spotlight | R, 33, London R came to EATLOOKFEEL with the goal of improving his overall health & physique. He was in a good routine with his training/ nutrition but he wanted to take his health to the next level as well drop his bodyfat %. When R came to me, he was over-training. He works long, stressful hours & training was his release, a positive release but his body was stressed & inflamed which was causing problems & making fat loss/ muscle gain slow. I re-designed his training & implemented 5x sessions per week- 4x resistance & 1x cardio session, creating a more optimal balance of strength/ cardio/ mobility across his week. Nutritionally, we have worked on bringing consistency & automation to his intake around his working hours, treading the fine-line of fuelling his training/ work whilst creating also that overall deficit to drive fat loss. Stress management has been a big focus of my work here. We audited his related routines; sleep hours, down regulation routine, overall stress management protocols, caffeine intake, & got these working for him. His training output is similar to where it was previously but he is now recovering well from that volume & seeing progress. Small changes, but big outcomes over time. The visual does the talking. R is significantly leaner whilst maintaining his shape/ size smoothly; he is also fitter, faster & is ultimately healthier as per the underlying data. All whilst continuing to juggle the long working hours & family life. The hours he brings to his health haven’t changed, they are now just far more efficient. —— Craving your own health progress? Apply to work together via my link in my bio. Healthier will always be a choice.

I turned 35 last week. Old to some, young to others, was travelling over the weekend & decided to write down 35 health related ideas I would tell my younger self (in no particular order):

When motivation is high but you’re not feeling 100%, should you train or rest? Time to lean on discipline & grind it out? Or time to ease off & respect the rest? Here’s a simple framework that I use myself & with clients. Obviously very generic, not medical advice & excluding of injury (that is a different topic entirely- context is needed), but may be of use for the days where you are tired/sore & unsure if training or resting is more beneficial for your long term progress. There is a fine line to tread between leaning on discipline & setting yourself up to be consistent. A line that can be the difference between good & great. Unsustainable intensity is easy short term, but stacking fatigue is inefficient. Be disciplined, never lazy, bring the intensity to your training when the time is right but also respect your body. Health is a long term game. More is not better, better is better.

Something that has been on my mind recently: What I call the content~ product balance. I’m talking specific to my world, but likely relevant to lots of service products. The reality is I spend my hours coaching/ consulting. Learning about health, living it, designing it, teaching progress, that is my expertise, not storytelling or making content. Every time I try to elevate content (quantity specifically) I find it takes time away from the work & that doesn’t sit right with me. The content world has got a bit out of control IMO, it’s unregulated, anyone can post anything, & it feels to me like lots is being created specifically for algorithms/ views/ controversy/ virality which is creating a bit of a mess. The game some are playing, each to their own, but I have no interest in adding to that. It’s a difficult balance to find, the modern world is content & data driven, & you have to be seen. But what is the cost to that? Are services getting worse as a result? I don’t know the answer, but it feels to me that the focus is on the shop window & not the inside in lots of cases. & that is not how I want to do things. In my mind, mastery requires hours, therefore spending those hours on content creation isn’t aligned with my goal. I try to share what I think is of genuine value & what I believe promotes/ inspires health progress (with a little bit of my lifestyle/ the things important to me mixed in), but it won’t ever be at the detriment to my service. Less, but better if you like. Designing & improving health is my passion & ultimately my strength, not CapCut edits, “hooks” & chasing virality. Anyway, back to work. Health to design.

A common trait I see in people who achieve high-level health long-term: They can raise the intensity when needed, but beneath it all is ruthless consistency. Their floor (worst day) isn’t too far from their ceiling (best day). & the work they do on their health is incredibly efficient & in the right direction. Intensity creates a good story, Consistency + direction creates good progress. & when it comes to health, you don’t want stories, you want a smooth, quiet trajectory of improvement. You feel good, you look good, you avoid injury/ illness & you set yourself up to show up better for everything else in life. Earn the right to increase the intensity, & that is by building a robust foundation of consistency & direction.

The quicker we can shift the idea that health progress isn’t a performative arc, but simply necessary, the smoother it becomes. The reality is, exercise & health progress has to exist in some format or problems will occur down the road. “Use it or lose it” if you like. It’s not about liking it or disliking it, it’s simply something that has to exist. Therefore by framing it as maintenance & something that is necessary, it becomes easier, less ego & less pressure. We do it for ourselves & that’s a different motivation. The self-development & performative nature to it can be used as motivation, but it’s important not rely on that source solely. If it’s performative, there is an end point. We reach the body fat%/ physique/ goal time & the motivation runs out. If it’s maintenance, we build automation & sustainability within our routine, we do it because it makes us feel good today & tomorrow. Finer details, but a difference between good & great health. Or getting in shape once & living in shape.�

My current supplement intake. 
This intake is specific to me, built on trial & error over a long period of time, my own research & blood tests (2x annually); however the thinking process may be useful. Maybe simpler than you’d expect but in my experience, simpler is better, fix all that you can through nutrition/ training/ lifestyle & then use supplementation to fill the gaps. For example: it’s much smoother to fix your gut health through lifestyle/ nutrition/ stress than it is through supplementation. Same goes with energy & sleep. Some general ideas: - Supplementation won’t fix poor habits, but it can optimise good ones. Focus on the foundations first. - Avoid taking anything for the sake of it. If you don’t know the reason & benefit for taking something, you may not need it. - I also cycle off everything once in a while (for 3-5days). Honestly, no scientific reasoning behind this, but rationally it makes sense to me. - Do look for tested supplements. Source & trust in brand is important. You need to make sure you are putting in your body what you think you are. Happy to answer DMs/ comments about specific brands/ supps that I use- want to avoid this feeling like an ad.

Client Spotlight | T, 30, London T came to me with the goal of improving his overall health & his physique. He is a model & works in music. Therefore our work isn’t about getting him ‘bodybuilder stage ready’, but improving his health, keeping him ready for shoots at short notice & having him feel his best around his busy lifestyle. We dived deep into his entire health routine & made some changes: - Brought real direction to his training- good cardio/ strength balance to achieve lean/ athletic but not bulky/ swollen. - Created nutritional frameworks & habits, both when home & when on the go. - Addressed his sleep & stress management. Late nights are unavoidable with his career, which makes the time he has in control even more important. The visual does the talking. T has improved his body comp hugely, his physique has progressed well & his career is going from strength to strength. & on a deeper level his daily energy, the way he approaches his routine & his underlying data have all improved. We continue to hold the standard. —— ⁣⁣⁣⁣Craving your own health progress? Fill in the form via the link in my bio. Healthier is a choice.

CREATING “AN AFTER WORK PROTOCOL”. High level health isn’t just about the 1 hour a day in the gym, but equally the 23 outside of it. My guess is that if you are chasing a high level of health, you are also likely pushing hard with work/ career/ business. The two often run parallel. & that comes with stress, which is positive, until you get stuck in that high stress & it starts to impact health progress. Having an “after work protocol” might be something to bring attention to when looking to push health forward. It won’t be able to look perfect every night, but carrying this intention can make big improvement. By creating a daily context switch, from work mode into rest mode; you can lower stress, protect relationships & recover well enough to carry energy into tomorrow. It’s less obvious than getting training/ nutrition dialled in, but may be the difference between good & great health long term. As ever, a huge part of good health is about creating a positive internal environment to set your body up to do the things you want it to. Don’t underestimate the detrimental impact that getting stuck in high stress has on this environment.