Reflection On Physical Fitness And Wellness

I have a strong background on physical fitness and wellness, because of who I am and who am parents are. Both my parents were high school athletes, and my dad continued to be a college athlete. In my parents are still in good shape because my dad was a personal trainer for the majority of my childhood. My mom has always been fit because she has always had a part in the medical field, she is currently on a fire department. So both my parent have always found fitness and wellness a very important aspect in life, and with that I learned to have the same love and passion for it. I was a swimmer for ten year and was very diligent in the training aspect. Now that I 'm in college I have stop because CUAA doesn 't have a pool and to also focus on …show more content…
In the class we talked about how walking is an actually exercise. I guess I have always took walking as something that wasn 't very important and that it wasn 't doing much for your body. I was rightfully wrong about this idea, this class help me see that walking is so much more than just getting for one place to the other. I think the biggest shocker for me was that walking with a high heart rate is the same or better for you as running is. Now that I am no longer swimming I started to take up running as a way to get cardio, and I am not a very good runner to say the least. So now after having this class I have started to walk on an incline every day at the gym before I run. I do this to help get my heart rate up like we practice in class and also to loosen up my legs. Walking has helped me burn just a few more calories and to help work a different part of my body out on a low impact …show more content…
It was one of the first days in class and you told us to write down two to three goals you wanted to attive. I wrote two goals; 1. To walk without my legs turning red. I picked with goal because every time I walk my front of my thighs would always get red and that get pretty uncomfortable. Now i 'm unsure on how I actually accomplished this goal but it got better. The second goal I had was; to lose 5- 10 lbs of body fat be the end of this semester. I don 't want to lose muscle, I wanted to get lean and mean as my dad puts it. Now it is not the end of the semester and I haven 't lost any weight, but I feel like I have replaced some fat with muscle. I feel better and I know that I gain muscle at a fast rate, but I am still going to work towards this goal everyday. Having this goal is another reason why I keep working out everyday even though I am sore or have things to do. Having these goals makes me want to achieve them that much more, because I see them every day. After realizing how much of any impact it had on me I took this tool and used it in my other classes. I made three goals for my both my anatomy and physiology class and my microbiology class. After putting them all down on a piece of paper, I hung them on my wall right where I do homework so that I can see them everyday and remind myself that things aren 't handed to you, you have to work towards them