The New Workout Plan

Seats are filling up, butter soaks the popcorn, and skeleton shaking bass fills the room. The newest action movie featuring this year’s coveted super hero has arrived. Incredible strength, overwhelming speed, and mind bending flexibility, are all physical traits unattainable by the normal population. Viewers are mesmerized by the double life these characters lead. Similarly, miles away, a crowd roars. Not one seat is left unoccupied. Spectators watch their favorite athlete, clothed in his or her…

of overweight and obese children has doubled in the last twenty years. The current methods for weight loss regarding pediatric obesity focus mainly on reducing calorie intake, eating healthier foods, and exercising, much like any other weight loss plan. Most consider obesity to be a “medical condition”, but what is overlooked is that psychosocial variables play a role in how it developed, and will also affect the road to treatment (Darwin & Taylor, 2009). In addition to healthier diets, exercise…

I collected my next group of defense force to fix this problem. I told them to work their way into almost every muscle on this small, petite girl; making it feel like she just got done doing the hardest, most intense workout of her life. This worked for quite a while, but I could tell I needed a little more. I sent my next flight of troops into every joint they could find in her miserable body. Now with every movement both her muscles and joints would feel as lumberjacks…

Being so young, I was so open to trying new things, and not categorizing anything as a “boys sport” or a “girls sport”. As I grew older, I stopped doing what I loved due to the judgements and generalizations of the peers around me. The cute boy in the corner would make fun of me because I would…

During elementary school the other kids were pretty much the same height. It was like everyone was the same and most people didn’t stand out. We all hated our vegetables and all wanted to be “big and strong.” Sadly, I didn’t grow as tall as I wanted to. Middle school came around quickly and it was the awkward stage of growing. By then most people in the 7th grade were at least 5’3, but I was still 4’11. My dad told me that his brother was 4’11 too then he had a huge growth spurt, now he is 6’4.…

Freud 1856-1939) “saw the individual as governed by irrational impulses as she or he passed through a series of psychosexual stages.”(Cowles, (1976). These stages were: 1. The verbal period 2. The anal period 3. The phallic period 4. The latency period 5. Genital period The oral period Its age series is from birth to the 1st year, and its area of the body where pleasure arises when it is touched is the mouth. The infant’s mouth is very important for eating, and the toddler derives pleasure from…

friends if they knew any diets that I should try that work with my busy life style. A way to manage these goals in a reasonable manner that wouldn’t seem like such a chore. I would always come up with the same excuses like, “I’m too busy to work workout daily and too broke to…

away if either occurs during or after exercise. CAN EXERCISE CAUSE ANY PROBLEMS RELATED TO DIABETES? If performed incorrectly, exercise can result in problems for people with diabetes. Your health care provider can help you decide on an exercise plan that allows you to avoid these problems. Some of these problems include: • Poor control of blood sugar. This may occur when exercise is performed at the wrong time or at too high of an intensity. • Poor response to normal insulin doses…

Today marks the twentieth anniversary since I have graduated from high school. My husband and I have taken a trip back to my hometown, Auburn, New York, for our high school reunion. I can remember it as if it was yesterday: walking across the stage in my crisp, white gown, moving the tassel on my cap from one side to the other, feeling the greatest feeling of fulfillment mixed with gratification. A lot has changed in my life since that moment, twenty years ago, when a diploma fell within my…

era. The phenomenon nonetheless has allowed society to advance to its current state, a state that has resulted from decades of exponential growth. Modern society and consumer culture is a human fabrication that is so far detached from nature that new questions must be addressed pertaining to whether a mere individual can still consume and participate in consumerism ethically. In this essay, I will argue that ethical consumption in modern society is impossible…