One of the main reasons for my behavioral change is to decrease my chance of hypertension, since it does run in my family. Not only will this be one the biggest benefits of this change, but being more active just has a lot more health benefits such as feeling more energetic, maintaining weight and even helps your body relax. Some barriers for my behavior change is if I have to study and sit for a while and not do as much walking as a would on regular days. Sometimes I have a lot of work to do and just sit in the library for hours, which is usually when I do not get as many steps. Also, if I do not need to go to main campus that could also be a barrier. Most of my steps come from going to campus and walking to and from different buildings. Since I know it will be challenging when I have to study or sit for long hours just doing work, I am going to try to incorporate breaks when it comes to studying. I will get up and stretch and walk for a bit. Also, if I do not get enough steps for the day I will walk home from main campus to south campus to make sure that I will reach my step increase a …show more content…
This last week was really motivating to keep on track because I joined a challenge on Fitbit that is called Workout Hustle. This challenge consists of you and other people competing and seeing who can get the most steps in a week. I was really motivated to be the winner so I kept on track with my step increase. Even though I did not win the workout hustle I joined, the challenge was a huge contributor to helping me finish my last week strong. Overall, I think my behavior change plan was meet. Even though the first week was a bit challenging to get used to being aware how many steps you are taking and meeting a certain goal increase a day, it got better throughout the weeks. I think it was great that at the end of my last week I discovered the challenge Fitbit had because I really wanted to be the winner for the week, so I was highly motivated to reach this mini goal in between my main goal. I did not really see a dramatic change in my steps where I maybe did less than the other days, which was a good thing to