By following these research-based daily habits, you can reduce your risk for chronic diseases like cancer, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes while improving your mental and physical health.

Learn the 5 healthy lifestyle categories that align your daily habits with what your brain and body need.
Discover how to achieve wellness with just 100 points a day.
Follow a 12-week protocol to build sustainable habits for exercise, sleep, stress management, nutrition, and substance use.
Track your progress with the Striving for 100 Assessment and Behavioral Checklist.

Scientifically-Based Approach



Julius Thomas is a clinical health psychologist, performance coach, and former two-time NFL Pro Bowler on a mission to redefine high performance. As the founder of Optimal Performance, Julius blends elite athletic experience with advanced training in clinical health psychology to help leaders, athletes, and organizations achieve sustainable excellence.
He delivers a one-of-a-kind perspective, shaped by years in professional sports experiences and preventative health care training. Julius provides professional mental performance coaching for world-class teams like the San Antonio Spurs and organizations such as Bacardi and Compass. He has also become a trusted advisor to Men’s Fitness, the NFLPA, Pro Athlete Community, and Harvard’s Football Players Health Study.
Julius is known for cutting through the noise of pseudo-expertise with evidence-based strategies that empower high performers to succeed without sacrificing their wellbeing. His work sits at the intersection of neuroscience, wellbeing, and peak performance—delivering results that are supported by science, transformational, and built to last.

Striving for 100 is a self-guided tool to help you or your team achieve a healthy lifestyle over 12 weeks. By following these researched based daily habits, you can decrease disease risk factors for: cancer, cardiovascular disease, obesity, diabetes and mental illnesses. Lifestyle behaviors are an overlooked by powerful tool for increasing your physical and mental health.

LEVEL 1: Start with Building Habits (Weeks 1–4)
LEVEL 2: Progress Moderate Healthy Living (Weeks 4–8)
LEVEL 3: Achieve Level 3: Healthy Living (Weeks 8–12)
Track your progress with the Striving for 100 Assessment and Behavioral Checklist.

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