How To Be Beach Ready All Year Round: A Guide to Living a Healthy and Active Lifestyle

Written By Michael Ockrim

Want to go to the beach? Like right now? Is it possible to pack a bag and be on the next flight to a tropical paradise? Or will it take a few weeks of preparation and planning?

Most people are not always beach ready. While this sounds like it’s about vanity, well, it is. And it isn’t. Always being beach ready is also about living a healthy and active lifestyle all of the time - not just when the calendar turns to a new year, when spring break is around the corner, or summertime brings less clothing and more skin.

Riding a wave of health is actually unhealthy. Fluctuating between periods of great nutrition, consistent movement, and deep rest, alternated with junk food binges, sedentary movie marathons, and restless nights is brutal on the body and the mind.

Live a healthy and active life. All the time. Not just when an exterior factor pushes in the direction of healthier choices. Make health choices consistently, as if that beach vacation were tomorrow. Then, when Eddie calls and says he has two tickets to paradise, it will be easy to pack a bag and leave tonight!

Michael Ockrim

Meet the Mighty Oak

Michael Ockrim is a strength and conditioning coach and the founder of Mighty Oak Athletic in suburban Chicago, where he trains student athletes and families to build lifelong habits around movement, recovery, and nutrition.

He has more than 30 years of personal training experience and is a second-degree black belt in USA Taekwondo. Michael also serves as a group fitness instructor at Life Time Athletic and is pursuing a culinary degree at College of DuPage to deepen his understanding of performance nutrition.

He is the author of Death Resistant: A Common Sense Guide to Live Long and Drop Dead Healthy, which explores practical strategies for longevity through strength, mobility, and lifestyle consistency.

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