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“People exercising just 15 minutes per day have a 14% lower mortality risk than those who do not exercise and increase their life expectancy by three years,” stated Theresa Bebbington in WebMD Health News. Upwards of 300,000 deaths are linked to obesity or being overweight per year. Obesity is now the second leading cause of death that can be prevented in the United States. Exercising can reduce the risk of health problems and even death later in life. From lifting weights to aerobic exercise,…

STRENGTH: A HUMAN ATTRIBUTE/CHARACTERISTIC ADMIRED IN ANCIENT GREECE What is strength? The dictionary defines it as, the quality or state of being strong; bodily or muscular power; vigor or mental power, force, or vigor. In Ancient Greece there were lived up to the definition of this word. Architecture, visual art and literature were used to honor those such people. On the other hand in Greek…

Running is a very inexpensive form of exercise. All that it takes is time and effort. A person can run almost anywhere, a park, a trail, a track, a neighborhood or even on a treadmill. Running is an excellent exercise for the cardiovascular and respiratory systems. It focuses on the leg muscles, toning and strengthening them. If a person is not sure how to start a running program, there are options for them. Couch to 5K is a program that gives a person a starting point and lets them build up to…

I was inspired to research getting fit and working out for physical strength, because since I was a little girl, I would always see on TV athletic women with toned bodies, especially on the Olympics. As a young woman, I always thought that people discriminate women because they thought of as weak. The ladies on TV were strong and that inspired me. I would dream always about being one day in that position, but I never have the chance to maintain that dream so the years went by so basically my…

After reading a few chapters of Strengths Quest, I was instructed to participate in the Strengths Finder assessment (Anderson, Clifton, & Schreiner, 2006). This 30 minute assessment was an interesting tool that pointed out my greatest strengths. It also provided a detailed description of what having those strengths mean and examples of how they are prominent in a person 's life. After taking the StrengthsFinder survey, I discovered that my five dominant strengths are empathy, harmony,…

Comparison/contrast Many people like to go to the gym and exercise and most of us target a specific area of muscles when we go to maximize the effectiveness of our workout. I am writing specifically about cardio and using machines to exercise. Normally when you go to the gym and you want to use a machine to get a cardio workout there are three options. The first is the Treadmill, and the second is the Elliptical, and the third is the Stationary Bicycle. Ill describe how to get a cardio workout…

opportunity I thought I would never have. The training I received from you was affective at teaching me the rights and wrongs of the job. I would like to cover some of the strengths and weaknesses of the training I was given. The strengths consist of a lot of different aspects of the training I received, here are the top strengths for your training program. First, you did a great job at showing me around the building and letting me know the purpose of each room. I was then showed where to…

what hadn’t worked for me during the fall. I knew I wanted to be like the strong and muscular girls that could lift their body weight. I had grown to love lifting during track, even more so than running and based of what information out there on strength training, I decided to start incorporating weight training into my workouts. I was able to stay on track for the whole semester and by the time summer rolled around I felt much better about how I looked and felt compared to the previous…

education is also one of the success factors of a student . What is meant by physical education is also a subject which all students have to take it either in school or even university. It is an outdoor activity that requires physical and mental strength. , What I want here is to discuss the students must take physical education course because it provides many benefits to students such as shape change and also the individual needs of the physical, mental, social, emotional and spiritual. Also,…

taking the StrengthsFinder test, I knew I had strengths and I knew I had weaknesses, yet I never could pin point exactly what they were. After completing this test, I now have a better understanding of what my current strengths are. Now being in a college setting, I think there are a plethora of opportunities for me to use my strengths to help others grow in their personal life and their relationship with Christ. From this test, I learned my strengths consist of harmony, responsibility,…