How Gregory Duhon, MD, Integrates Fitness and Wellness into a Busy Medical Career

Medical professionals spend much of their career working with patients and in research facilities to promote wellness and healthy living. Yet, at the same time, Dr. Gregory Duhon, MD, says that many of these same medical professionals find it challenging to integrate fitness and wellness into their busy medical career.

There are a lot of wellness pitfalls of being a busy medical professional. Despite their in-depth knowledge of how important it is to be healthy, the long work hours and high-stress situations they find themselves in present many challenges and roadblocks to engaging in a healthy lifestyle.

Yet, it’s essential for even the busiest of medical professionals to be healthy. Drawing on his experience with Ironman training, Dr. Duhon provides ways to integrate fitness and wellness into a busy medical career.

Be Consistent

Starting a fitness and wellness routine can seem overwhelming to busy medical professionals. So, a great place to start is to be consistent with your routine, and focus more on that consistency rather than on the duration and/or intensity of the actual routine.

Even if working your way up to an intense, Ironman-like training regime is your ultimate goal, it doesn’t have to be where you start.

Begin by integrating simple fitness and wellness items into your routine. This could be using the stairs instead of using the elevator, and utilizing even small breaks in work to take a quick walk.

Then, you can ramp up your fitness routines as you get more comfortable and wrap your head around your schedule.

Schedule It In

Medical professionals often have schedules that are completely booked. To stay on top of everything, it’s important to create an organized and optimized schedule.

As you start on your fitness and wellness journey, make it as important as a work meeting. This means scheduling a set time for it every day.

If it’s on your calendar, it will be harder for you to forget — and will allow you to organize the rest of your day around what you need to do.

Take Advantage of Technology

Medical professionals utilize advanced technology throughout their day to help advance how they deliver wellness to their patients. Similar technology can be used to help make your own fitness and wellness journey more efficient and effective.

Today, there are plenty of free and paid apps that do everything from track your workouts to delivering guided meditations to joining you together with other people for virtual fitness classes.

Dr. Gregory Duhon says this technology can help to empower busy medical professionals to curate an exercise regimen that works best for them. These apps can not only help to organize and track your workouts, but also open your eyes to completely new types of workouts that you might enjoy.

The best part about this technology is that it brings the fitness and wellness activities to you, without the need to travel to a gym or have extensive workout equipment. In other words, it helps you work out on your time and in your space.

About Dr. Gregory Duhon, MD

Dr. Gregory Duhon, MD, is the driving force behind American Consulting Physicians, a trailblazing telemedicine venture. As an accomplished Internal Medicine Physician and Hospitalist with a profound grasp of ICU, emergency room, and crisis/pandemic management, Dr. Duhon is leveraging his expertise to provide acute and chronic medical care services remotely across 15 states including Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, and more.

His specialization in complex conditions and willingness to extend patient consultations underscore his commitment to elevating healthcare. Beyond his business pursuits, Dr. Duhon’s diverse interests encompass Ironman training, culinary exploration, passion fruit cultivation, and a dedication to advancing accessible and exceptional medical care.