About
In support of the U.S. Space Force’s Holistic Health Approach (HHA), Human Performance Resources by CHAMP (HPRC) has compiled a curated list of practical, evidence-based tools and resources to grow your knowledge and encourage meaningful behavior change.
HHA and HPRC follow the Total Force Fitness (TFF) framework, which is a holistic approach to Service Member well-being. The TFF framework consists of interrelated domains that impact Service Member health and job performance, and has been incorporated into the Space Force programs to help Guardians like you perform better on and off duty.
If your holistic health is not optimized, you might start to see a cascade of negative effects in multiple areas of your health. For example, if you aren’t sleeping well (sleep health), you might notice you:
- Have a lack of focus at work (cognitive performance)
- Have a lessened ability to regulate emotions easily (mental fitness)
- Have less energy to engage in personal relationships (social fitness)
- Become more sedentary (physical fitness)
- Begin to reach for energy drinks and other highly-processed foods (nutritional fitness)
Since the TFF domains are interrelated, improvements in one performance area can help boost performance in other areas. For example, when a Guardian increases their physical activity, they also experience other health benefits, such as improved sleep health, better stress management, and increased social connection (especially if exercising with others or as a team). Whether you focus on a performance area individually or focus on them collectively, taking a holistic health approach using TFF can help you improve at your job and perform mission-essential tasks, as well as optimize your personal health and well-being.
“Total Force Fitness is more than physical fitness. It is the sum total of the many facets of individuals, their families, and the organizations to which they serve. It is not something someone achieves twice a year for a test. It is a state of being. A total force that has achieved total fitness is healthy, ready, and resilient; capable of meeting challenges and surviving threats.”
— ADM Michael Mullen, Past Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
The TFF framework also addresses the need for resources and support for each performance area. Use this HHA Self-Assessment Resource Kit to optimize your holistic health and performance. The tools in this kit can help you assess your current level of holistic health and fitness in each performance area and identify behaviors you might want to change. These tools can help you consider changing risky health behaviors or optimizing your performance by going from good to better, or even recognizing areas of your health you want to sustain.
To learn more about TFF and its history, read HPRC’s article, “What is Total Force Fitness?” If you’d like to learn more about human performance optimization, read HPRC’s article, “Human Performance Optimization: Moving left of bang.”
Tools
The HHA toolbox has 3 related resource kits: a self-assessment kit to help you figure out your current fitness in each performance area, a habit-building kit to help you develop a plan to automate your behaviors, and a TFF toolkit that contains guides to improve fatigue management, stress optimization, and mitigate environmental exposures.
