My Reflection On Fitness, Fitness And Fitness

My Reflection Paper Ever since I got out of high school I haven’t felt the need to get back into the gym, until I over exerted myself easily. I’m glad that I took this class it gave me a reason to start back up. Fitness is important in life it makes you feel better, more energized, and most importantly healthier. With that said I never made the attempt to get back to physically fit. I would use the excuse that “I don’t have the time” or that “I was too tired.” For this class we set goals that we wanted to accomplish, I wanted to improve my overall muscular endurance and flexibility, to bring back more definition and tone to my body, and to run 2 miles in under 10 minutes. Throughout the class I made small accomplishments with my flexibility. It became a little easier to touch my toes standing up. I worked on my side stretches, lunges, inner thigh stretch, and squats. My other accomplishment was improving my max weight with one rep. within my six week time in this class I nearly double my max reps for each of the machines I focused on; Pull-down, leg extensor, and leg press. Also I went from using the assist for the chin up and dip assist, to not needing the assist at all. My biggest accomplishment, and my main goal, was running 2 miles in under 10 minutes. In which I accomplished, I ran 2 miles in 9 …show more content…
Motivation is a big thing for me; it is why I never really went into the gym in the first place. This class gave me some motivation just not the correct ones I needed. Having to sign myself into class was a good one it forced me to go to the gym, it was hard to deal with but I’m proud I did it though. Another one was the fact that you sat outside the exit, which kind of forced us to stay at least 40 minutes and have our workout sheets filled out. As far as finding time having this actually as a class helped make room in my busy schedule to workout, and get back into the