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Minimal Viable Health Habits Playbook MVHH

Importance · SupportingFrom a wearable · Not from a wearable
Last reviewed November 2026
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In one sentence

For when you have turned things around and want to hold what you have built: it keeps the markers that slip first in view, and tells you early when one starts to drift.

Who it is for

Someone past the hard part, a plan finished or a habit settled, who wants to keep the result rather than start a new project. It needs nothing beyond your phone for steps, and has more to watch with each device you add.

Its focus on Home

Your minimum leads, then the markers that slip first: Fat-free mass index for muscle, Visceral fat, VO₂ max, Resting heart rate, Overnight HRV, Glucose, Blood pressure and Sickness, your sick days. Also tracked keeps the habits that hold them one swipe away: strength sessions, steps, Training Load, carbs, protein, alcohol this week, vegetables, calories goal and body fat.

Your minimum

When you start, VT takes a snapshot of each kept marker: its average and spread over the eight weeks before. A newer member's snapshot builds until eight weeks of data are behind it, and the card says so. Each marker is paired with the habits that hold it: strength sessions with protein for muscle and body fat; steps and cardio for VO₂ max and resting heart rate; carbs for glucose, time in tight range and glucose variability; diet breaks for visceral fat and the weight trend; alcohol and its timing, and the time of your last coffee, for that night's HRV and sleep; vegetables and fermented food for glucose variability and sick days; sauna, cold, breathing and mindfulness for HRV, resting heart rate and stress; and, if you log them, magnesium, ashwagandha, melatonin, berberine, beetroot and immune supplements. Each pair says how soon a change shows: that night, days, weeks or months.

When something drifts

A kept marker that leaves its range and stays out is flagged: weight, body fat and fat-free mass on their trend at each weigh-in; VO₂ max and blood pressure on two readings at least a week apart; sick days when the last eight weeks hold clearly more than the snapshot's. VT sends one message naming the marker and what changed in the last four weeks against your snapshot, and the screen shows what a night after drinks or late caffeine costs you against nights without.

What it gives its best with

Asked for: steps from your phone, counted once Health is connected. Helps: a weigh-in a week, which shows the slow consequence; meals on three days a week, since protein can only be counted on logged days; a wearable, so sleep is counted for you, not typed; and a smart scale, which records the slow consequence for you.

In Meals

Five servings of vegetables a day, and nothing else of its own.

Sources

  1. Vitality Tracker, the Playbook catalogue (Minimal Viable Health Habits, version 3 with Your minimum, published November 2026)
  2. the Features page (Playbook Selection).
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Vitality Tracker describes and tracks physiological measures recorded by your own consumer devices against your own history, for general wellness and for discussion with a health professional. It does not diagnose, predict or monitor any disease.