My Exercising Journal Analysis

Health and fitness has always been a big part of my life even without knowing it, but the transition changed from sport and athletics to the gym and trying to achieve what I thought was expected of me socially. After a year of lagging progress and nearly giving up I decided to give it one more shot I just needed to go after it a different way. I needed to educate myself on the process I was going to undergo to achieve my goals. So I turned to the internet, more specifically Youtube, it became my saving grace, unbeknownst to me at the time there was a large fitness community waiting for me behind my Youtube search bar, ready to provide anyone who looks with large amounts of information on Fitness and training, healthy eating and dieting and a major source of positive motivation to help get anyone started.

Pattern recognition helps to develop the skills necessary to develop a differential diagnosis. When seeing patients in the clinical setting, practitioners begin to recognize associated symptoms, health history details, and assessment findings that are related to specific system alterations. By acknowledging these repetitive patterned-like affiliations from clinical scenarios, we as learners can begin to transform our foundational knowledge to critical thinking, diagnostic reasoning, and differential development. According to work by Flott and Linden (2015), a positive learning environment can be supported by understanding "attributes" that support learning (p. 501). Hence, pattern recognition is an example of an attribute that will contribute to learning in the clinical setting for nurse practitioner students. Consequently, being able to mentally sort a group of symptoms, findings, and diagnostics that are related to a particular problem can help build an intellectual database of reference. As a result, these steps help students develop a diagnosis, differential, and plan of care. A reflection of pattern recognition, problem-based learning, and clinical experiences will be examined further to help substantiate the contributions to the learning experience.

When you are committed into accomplishing something, especially if it’s something that is challenging and something that you want to change, you have to put motivation in it to actually accomplish it. My purpose for creating this collage is to persuade people to motivate themselves when they are going through the process of a diet or working out. Without motivation, the work you're putting in your workout or diet is worthless to you. Motivate yourself to boost your confidence which will make you feel great!

I chose to do my behavior change project on improving my diet. I put my own little twist on it with the way I measured my success and I had to supplement it to reach my goals, but I feel that it was done really well. My goal was at the end of the four weeks to be able to run 3.1 miles in 18:45. I have run times close to this before, but that was a couple of years ago. At the beginning of this project my time for 3.1 miles was 20:36. I knew that if I was committed and worked really hard that I would be able to do it though. I chose to measure my behavior change this way due to the fact that I have a very busy life and I am on the high school cross country team. I figured I would already be running each week and I have a race every week that I can measure my time against my goal. So I was just trying to save some time in my schedule by partially combining two activities.

My biggest problem is keeping myself motivated. People say “I’m going to get in shape.” Everyone has said that at least once in their life, but I have said it so many times I began to lose

I already had an extremely busy routine, maintaining a 3,7 GPA in college prep classwork, daily golf practice, volunteering through my school and my church, SAT / ACT prep. Add to that a very full tournament & travel schedule including at least 16 multi-day tournaments nationally. How would I find the time to get fit? After many excuses & false starts, in March 2016 I committed to making a change. I needed to be healthier, and needed to improve my physical fitness and stamina to continue to improve as an athlete. I began eating a low carb, high protein diet and going to the gym as a guest every day with two of my friends. I began to see changes in my body and health and became even more motivated by seeing the results from my hard work. It became easier to manage my studies and all my other activities around my commitment to health and fitness. I earned my own gym membership and began to work out every day, even during my travel to golf tournaments. This summer I traveled throughout Florida, to Alabama, Georgia, Arizona, and Tennessee for tournaments and

In this week’s journal we were assigned reading in the They Say, I Say book. The assigned reading was to teach us how to write papers in an argumentative form, either agreeing with a statement, disagreeing, or a little of both. As explained in our chapter often writers are afraid to argue a statement, based on the fact that they feel as if they do not have enough knowledge about the information. The question to be answered in this journal is, how do I see myself as an arguer?

In this situation, I learned that I am capable of handling so much more than I think. My behavior post-workout is evidence that my intervention plan works. For every workout that I completed, I felt more motivated to keep going. Every moment of success meant that I needed to push myself so that I stay consistent with my workouts. Both my physical and emotional well-being were elevated because I believed in

At the start of 2016 I had been consistently achieving my fitness goals. I fell off of the wagon while trying to meet the demands of life. I wondered why my inspiration had faded. The answer came to me while reading “Be Obsessed or Be Average” by Grant Cardone; I realized that my inspiration never left, but rather, I hadn’t adjusted my goal appropriately based on my progress. After gaining this perspective, I was able to reestablish my goal. Additionally, I now know how to adequately adjust my goal when I my inspiration dwindles.

So, in the summer, when all my friends slept until noon, I wake up every morning at four to exercise at CrossFit. There were times when I wanted to give up and sleep after a year of exam driven sleep deprivation, but every time that happened, I saw my steadfast father fight through exhaustion, I saw my unfit body, and I saw a lifetime of heart disease ahead of me. With that motivation, I kicked the covers off the bed and jump out with gusto to get my day started. School has started, and I continue with the same vigor as I did in the summer. Balancing classes, clubs, internships, dance, and now exercising, my schedule has never been more jam-packed, but I have never been happier. Inspiration got me started, but after 3 months, positive attitude and habit kept me going, and I have no intention of stopping. I realized that when you stop making excuses and own up to your own faults, you can accomplish anything if you make a regimen and stick with

I knew I had to change and this time I was motivated to not fall back on old habits. I made it through the whole transtheoretical model because it is more than a year later and I have been consistently working out and eating healthy. I have had a week where I don’t work out but I haven’t quit. As of writing this, I have still maintained my goal of being

Sitting at a crowded table surrounded by my friends roaring with laughter, I gazed out at the ocean. The glaring sun burned on my skin, and I was exhausted from spending the day at the boardwalk of the Jersey Shore. My stomach was growling, and all I could think of was how badly I wanted food. All of a sudden, the aroma of melting mozzarella and fresh tomatoes hit me like a train. I could hardly wait. The waitress soon came over and left the pizza on our table. I wanted to begin eating at that second, but first I had to take a picture of this beautiful creation.

Have you taken time lately to figure out your strengths or weaknesses? After taking the Gallup Strength Quest, I learn that I have five great strengths! Analytical, Activator, Harmony, Discipline, and Command. Some of these strengths do not surprise me yet some do. For example, when it comes to discipline I believe I utilize it quite well."People who are especially talented in the Discipline theme enjoy routine and structure. Their world is best described by the order they create."(Gallup, 2012) I tend to be discipline the most when I am actively exercising. I make sure I eat the right food as well as the correct portion size in order to stay intact with my workout plan. Working out, in general, requires lots of self- discipline. Another

I chose to log my daily diet, exercise and rest for a week to find what changes I can make to better my health. I found so many things that I can change to help me with all three of these areas. I might even need to keep track every week of my habits so I feel more organized and have everything planned out so I don’t get off track of my goals.

My days used to be packed with hours in a dance studio, rehearsing, stretching, choreographing and taking classes. I did not consider it to be exercise, because in my head, working out was something that you did not enjoy, but was essential for your health. I had no need to actively go to a gym because of the amount of physical energy dance required. I was forced to quit dancing a year ago due to my academic load in senior year. It was a huge change for my body, as I had been dancing full-time since I was 8. However, since I did not have a previous habit of going to the gym, I had a difficult time developing it anew. I decided to use this opportunity to help myself create a new routine in my lifestyle.